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We may hear about One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) from time to time in the future, but the initiative has now been pretty much shuttered. The gory details? "50 percent cut in staff & pay cuts for the remaining staff... A shift to Middle East, Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan... Sugar to be spun off... Latin America and Africa to be spun off." What, OLPC is now a part of the War on Terror? Here's Negroponte's announcement. And Yama Ploskonka says, "This is an unparalleled opportunity to get rid of the extra baggage." Yow. More from Techdirt.

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