On Jun 10, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Carl Walther wrote: > My understanding is that they will only be sold in very large > quanities. One report I read said one million units. They are for > third world countries, not for US consumption.
Makes me wonder if the biggest obstacle for the OLPC is not technological but rather political. In a word: corruption. I'd like to believe that the folks at OLPC have thought of safeguards that prevent a corrupt official or even a parent of a kid from selling those $100 laptops for say $300 and pocketing the difference. But then corruption is a problem with any good-will type program be it food, water, shelter, etc. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
