Mr. John Hibbs writes:
<<At 10:02 AM -0700 5/29/05, Dr. Steve Eskow wrote: >If the Simputer is a superior product, and mass producing it will >dramatically lower its price, the Simputer firm might emulate Negroponte and >insist on mass orders.>> "Insist"? How?>> As I understand the Negroponte idea, by taking no orders for less than a million of the $100 computer. A government, then, might spend $100,000,000 to purchase a million computers, and then establish a nation-wide system of community telecenters, furnishing each telecenter with one or more computers at its cost, or subsidized in whole or in part. Steve Eskow [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
