OLPC (One Laptop per Child) wiki

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Christopher Browne wrote:

> The really dumb part is that they seem to be trying to make these
> devices *only* readily available if you are a government educational
> ministry buying them in bulk.

I recently read that they will be available for $100 to
governments / educational institutions, and for $200 for public
use.

behdad



> It seems to me that there would be a *huge* win in trying to seed
> these as widely as possible, *period.*
>
> The "Simputer" was a somewhat similarly-intended design...
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simputer>  It failed, in great part
> because they never got enough units pushed out to get prices to the
> promised point.
>
> That would support my contention of trying to shove them out even to
> people interested in not-strictly-educational uses ;-).
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