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One Laptop Per Marketing Executive - yet another new name for OLPC computer
by Sniffer | posted on 29 August 2006
It's official! - the One Laptop Per Child computer is to be called the Children's Machine One, or CM1. Oh, no; sorry. It's official. The CM1 is to be called the 2B1.
The new name - the old new name - was broken by Aljazeera a week ago as CM1, and the project was supposed to confirm it at the weekend. And they did. And a day later, it was all change again!
The change was detailed here on the OLPC web wiki run by OLPC News.
And if you want to understand "Negropontism" it's all detailed on the same site, where it seems safe to say that scepticism is not being eliminated, yet...
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