On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 03:10 +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > One thing I don't get about OLPC is their opposition to selling the > machines to people like us. It would increase their volumes and provide > a corpus of people making Cool Shit<tm> for the machine. Sure, we're > not all educators, but we'll still help.
A few days ago the BBC was reporting that one idea recently floated by the OLPC guys was a "buy two get one" scheme, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6246989.stm . If you're going to the LCA open day, make sure you ask them about it. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
