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Stephen Downes

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Things are gettiung ugly over on the OLPC blog. One person notes, "One Laptop Per Child needs high quality software on its machines, but the amount of abuse ladled out over OLPC's developer community is incredible. First they are called 'terrorists', and then it was 'fundamentalists'." And in another post, we read that "Nicholas Negroponte now seems to think that all of Sugar's problems can be solved by outsourcing a Sugar-on-Windows port to developers in Uruguay, who will be funded by Microsoft."

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