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Looks like there are going to be a few more setbacks in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign, which has been struggling to regain footing over the past few months. First is the fact that the company has made good on the promise to end its much-lauded Give One, Get One program, which effectively came to close at the end of last year. The program was given a last-minute reprieve the last time the organization threatened to end it, and while that's not the case this time around, Laptop has word from Negroponte himself that those looking to get their hands on one of the tiny green notebooks shouldn't give up hope altogether. Unfortunate news item number two is the the departure of the organization's CTO, Mary Lou Jepsen, who is quitting to capitalize on the technology that she helped pioneer for the not-for-profit organization. Jepsen, who became OLPC's first employee back in 2005, led the hardware and display development of the XO laptop. "I will continue to give OLPC product at cost, while providing commercial entities products they would like at a profit," Jepsen told IT World. Like the Give One, Get One program, Jepsen's last day with the company was December 31st.

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