Displaced by XP, Sugar Labs goes it alone

May 16th, 2008 | Category: Gadget Corner

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While OLPC tries to wise up to the real demands of the market and build a cheap laptop that society actually want — which means Windows XP for most — Walter Bender, OLPC’s former president of software and composition for the project is taking his open source Linux-based Sugar OS and has started up a new

non-profit to aid its development. Bender still has the vision of an open source learning OS, and plans to give Sugar full support for other low-cost platforms like the Eee PC. Ooh, burn.

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Original post by Paul Miller

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