If One Laptop Per Child will really open up all its hardware intellectual property, especially the dual mode screen, then this is a radical change for them and real game-changer for everyone looking at information and communication technologies.
Protypes of the upcoming "Sugar" NetBook for Child's ( OLPC 2.0 )
I was reading this prophetic old article from WIRED ("Open Source Everywhere"), i've been surprised by a short paragraph from Nicholas Negroponte quoted:
"One important thing about the XO-2 is that we're going to do it as an open source hardware programme. The XO-1 was really designed as if we were Apple. The XO-2 will be designed as if we were Google - we'll want people to copy it. We'll make the constituent parts available. We'll try and get it out there using the exact opposite approach that we did with the XO-1 [...] The next one will be different: everything from the dual display to the touch-sensitive, force-feedback, haptic keyboard will be available.
This is pretty much the biggest news of 2009 - I am going to email the OLPC folks confirm, but according to this article - The new OLPC XO-2 will be an open source hardware project... Just to recap what that means... the source, the schematics, the PCB files, the firmware, the CAD files, everything will be available and commercial use is OK. If it's true, this is extremely exciting, I'd love to see the best company that can make these at the lowest price / highest quality flourish.
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