<quote who="Rev Simon Rumble"> > So get someone else to do it, and purchase 100,000 of them up-front. Get > them to do all the "annoying customers" handling too. If it's an existing > retailer, they're the experts already.
That's a massive distraction for the core organisation. Remember, it is not a technology project, it's an education project. > You're telling me it's not a well-priced, highly portable, networked > computer with decent battery life? That's something I've been after for > many years -- laptops are way to heavy and PDAs suck. It's also underpowered, kiddy-finger-sized and remarkably non-PC-like (think OpenFirmware and so on), so you simply can't expect it to be the holy grail of portable computing hardware. Yes, it's a fantastic project, but no, it's not for everyone. - Jeff (actively advocating for OLPC as a humanitarian/education effort) -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "I think hot Chinese girls who kick ass are the wave of the future, as far as films go." - Cody Russell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
