Dave A. Chakrabarti wrote: > Satish, Taran, others, > > I find this paragraph (originally from Satish's post) of interest: > > "Simputer Never became a product. Its a great prototype that needs to > >be perfected as a "product". A product is not an idea. It is something > >that gets accepted as a product that adds value at the level it gets > >perceived at. Simputer has not even sold 10,000 units in 5 years and > >that is less than the beta testing numbers of any product I have seen > >in the past decade and a half."
It is apparent that Satish has a very different definition of 'product'. There are some in the Caribbean who would attribute this to colonialism; I do not know enough of Satish's perspective to say that this is a good label. What I do know is that there has been a pointed lack of response to poignant questioning, and that until those questions are answered I find that my aversion to the Negroponte laptop grows. In fact, I have found this all to be more of an advertorial for Negroponte, with misting used excessively to cloud the real issues. I wonder if the ship will hit the black bridge? -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Coming on January 1st, 2006: http://www.OpenDepth.com "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
