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One Laptop Per Child techie wants to make money on cheap PCs

Tim Faulkner ยท 01/10/08 03:35PM

Mary Lou Jespen, founding CTO of the One Laptop Per Child project, recently walked off her job at Nicholas Negroponte's charity case. And now she wants to build a $75 version of the laptop that OLPC has struggled to build for $200. But Jespen may be crazy like a fox. She's actually building a business โ€” the insanity! โ€” called Pixel Qi to further her goals.