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The One Laptop Per Child Foundation is to begin selling individual XO laptops in the US, according to founder Nicholas Negroponte.
Sales of the XO in the US have so far been limited to a scheme called Give One Get One, where an XO laptop could be purchased for $399. This price included a donation of an identical laptop to a developing nation.

(Quote from PcPro)

Remember OLPC saying that they’d never do this? They sold for 2 weeks, then extended to the end of 2007, which I wrote about way back, and now their selling them like normal laptops? I thought the aim was that they should be donated to 3rd world countries, not become the latest gimick in the US? I mean, come on guys.
Although, admittedly, there are people in America and even the UK who need these laptops as much as people in third world countries, as has been said to me by a lot of people.
I’m actually wondering if this announcement has anything to do with Intel abandoning them, although I can’t see any reason for it doing so..
-G