OLPC is funded by a number of sponsor organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES Global, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat. Each company has donated two million dollars.[6]
THE NIGERIAN Government has officially ordered and paid for one million of the hundred dollar laptops which cost about 140 dollars, according to reports.
Both Intel and Microsoft have said they think its crap. It's probably pretty good then.
This video
demos the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child, aka "Hundred Dollar Laptop") User
Interface (using an emulator). It's pretty unconventional and worth
having a look. Check out 90percentofeverything.com for a clearer
version of this video.