OLPC (One Laptop per Child) wiki

[Phillip Qin]

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?

PQ

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Esfahbod
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Subject: Re: [TLUG]: OLPC (One Laptop per Child) wiki

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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