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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I don't object to any charity work. But I am wondering if so many kids are under poverty, no food, no place to live, what's the point we send them notebooks? Why don't we just spend this much money helping them surviving first?</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org [<A HREF="mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org">mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</A>] On Behalf Of Behdad Esfahbod</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: January 16, 2006 4:09 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: OLPC (One Laptop per Child) wiki</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Christopher Browne wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> The really dumb part is that they seem to be trying to make these</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> devices *only* readily available if you are a government educational</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ministry buying them in bulk.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I recently read that they will be available for $100 to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>governments / educational institutions, and for $200 for public</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>use.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>behdad</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> It seems to me that there would be a *huge* win in trying to seed</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> these as widely as possible, *period.*</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> The "Simputer" was a somewhat similarly-intended design...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> <<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simputer" TARGET="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simputer</A>> It failed, in great part</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> because they never got enough units pushed out to get prices to the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> promised point.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> That would support my contention of trying to shove them out even to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> people interested in not-strictly-educational uses ;-).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>--behdad</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://behdad.org/" TARGET="_blank">http://behdad.org/</A></FONT>
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