laptops for kids for $ 100

[Zbigniew Koziol]

"50 percent of cost of today's laptops is in sales promotion, marketing, 
etc.  We have none of that cost.  The rest of it is the display — and we 
have a lot of expertise working to bring the cost of that down to $35. 
As for the rest of the parts, at least 75 percent of it is there to 
support the weight of the operating system…I'm not just picking on 
Microsoft.  This is true of Adobe and others as well.  Invariably, next 
release [of software] is worse than next one… It's gotten so fat, so 
slow, so obese, so unreliable that it's time to start over and dumb it 
down with skinny Linux — skinny open source."

More at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1935

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