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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) famously aimed to create the $100 laptop and make it available to schoolchildren throughout the world. It never reached that cost target – the actual figure is close to double that – but it’s made a big impact, and now it hopes to make and even bigger one.
Speaking at the TED 2009 conference, founder Nicholas Negroponte announced that the company would open source its hardware design and encourage others to a copy it, according to blogger Ethan Zuckerman.
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