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There's money in One Laptop Per Child, thinks inventor Jepsen
by Staff Writer | posted on 02 January 2008
Frustration has often been expressed by people who think that the "One Laptop" venture should also be available to people who aren't desperately poor; and it seems that the inventor of the OLPC technology agrees.
According to Agam Shah "chief technology officer Mary Lou Jepsen is quitting the non-profit group to start a for-profit company to commercialise technology she invented with OLPC."
The story says that Jepsen starts her new venture tomorrow, but will continue to work for OLPC in a consulting role.
A longer report quotes Jepsen as saying that she's satisfied that the XO laptop is a commercial success and that it's time to move on to her "next miracle" in display technology: "I believe that the work I led in the design of the XO laptop is just the first step in changing computing."
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