Re: Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC

2009-01-07 Thread david
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Have you seen the blog entry > http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission/ ? > See also > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html > and all > the other blogs (engadget

Re: Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC

2009-01-07 Thread genesee
Judging by my Google Alert for 'olpc', the whole thing failed in early 2008! Whoever is the OLPC Steve Jobs might could use a John Sculley. Seriously, I feel for the OLPC folks and wish them the best. This past October I had to take a demotion/pay cut at my crappy retail job or join the unemployme

Will OLPC survive 2009 ? Half of OLPC laid off, others get salary cuts. Sugar development stops at OLPC

2009-01-07 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Have you seen the blog entry http://blog.laptop.org/2009/01/07/refocusing-on-our-mission/ ? See also http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html and all the other blogs (engadget, gizmodo, pc world, ...). It does not look very good. S