On Saturday 02 February 2008 09:05 pm, Sameer Verma wrote: > Keep in mind > that a good proportion of the billion plus people in India (the target > of the article) are quite well fed. Many of them just don't care about > the rest.
Understood. And, I think that many of the people who express opposition to the XO laptop on the grounds that the $200 apiece could be better spent on food do not actually care about hungry children either. I think their real reason for opposition is they want to maintain the current structure of power in which a relatively small percent of the population makes and imposes decisions on the rest of us. Regards, John Kintree _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open

