The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association says that it will preload its $100 laptop computers with a snapshot of select Wikipedia articles. In a statement releases with the announcement, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was quoted saying "OLPC's mission goes hand in hand with our goal of distributing encyclopedic knowledge, free of charge, to every person in the world. Not everybody in the world has access to a broadband connection. This is exactly the type of project that advances Wikipedia's core mission."More info at TG Daily.
$100 laptop to have Wikipedia preloaded
Posted on Monday, August 07 2006 @ 10:01 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The $100 notebook will ship with Wikipedia preloaded: