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by kiuyhjk 5755 days ago
No - the Indian government claimed that the tablet was possible because of their world lead in IT and the involvement of Indian universities. It did this for it's own political purposes and to the embarrassment of the university involved.

As everyone on here knows, like OLPC, it would end up actually costing more than and doing less than a commercially produced model - like every other government initiative.

It seems that in this case they simply got caught cheating.