[LINK] $100 laptop could sell to public

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Mon Jan 15 14:08:44 AEDT 2007


Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> Debunked, alas, at a thousand miles an hour, as many and various sources 
> will now attest.
> 
>> One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organisation with the goal 
>> of providing children in developing nations with laptop computers, 
>> today announced that "contrary to previously published reports OLPC 
>> has no plans to make the XO laptops available for sale to the general 
>> public."

I predict a surge in backpackers visiting third world countries
to buy real cheap laptops from the poor who would rather feed themselves
than compute. Laptop tourism replaces eco tourism, so to speak.

cheers
rickw



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