SKIRMISHER

“I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission. The mission was, in his mind, always getting as many laptops as possible out there; to say anything about learning would be presumptuous, and so he doesn’t want OLPC to have a software team, a hardware team, or a deployment team going forward. Nicholas’ new OLPC is dropping those pesky education goals from the mission and turning itself into a 50-person nonprofit laptop manufacturer, competing with Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Asus, HP and Intel on their home turf, and by using the one strategy we know doesn’t work.”

– Ivan Krstić, former security director of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit, blasting the project for forsaking its goals and accusing Chairman Nicholas Negroponte of deceiving the public in an enlightening flaming-like-flaming-shit post.

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