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The project originally aimed for a price of 100 United States dollars. In May 2006, Negroponte told the Red Hat's annual user summit: "It is a floating price. We are a nonprofit organization. We have a target of $100 by 2008, but probably it will be $135, maybe $140. That is a start price, but what we have to do is with every release make it cheaper and cheaper— we are promising that the price will go down."
Source: Donoghue, Andrew. "$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'", CNET News.com, 2006-06-02. Retrieved on 2006-08-19.