Negroponte, who has served on Motorola's board of directors for ten years, observes that the telecommunications giant has been working on reducing production costs for computer monitors to US $ 10. Initially, Negroponte and his partners opted for the cheaper rear projection display system. Due to the high cost of royalties, Microsoft Windows was out of the question, so they are using the open-source operating system Linux instead.
擔任全球行動通訊大廠摩托羅拉公司董事 10 年的尼葛洛龐帝指出，該公司一直在研究如何將電腦螢幕成本降低到 10 美元，剛開始時他會先採用成本較低的背投影技術；而軟體也會捨棄需支付高額權利金的微軟視窗系統，改用 Linux 的開放原始碼作業系統。