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Re: [News] $100 Linux Laptop (OLPC Project) -- a Marvel

  • Subject: Re: [News] $100 Linux Laptop (OLPC Project) -- a Marvel
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:00:47 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS
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__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Thursday 10 August 2006 23:02 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> __/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:40 \__
>> 
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Low-Tech OLPC Laptop Still a Marvel
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | By picking small-fry chip fabricators instead of Intel for the 500
>>>> | megahertz central microprocessor, the OLPC project has shunned the
>>>> | American industrial establishment, as it has since the project was
>>>> | introduced by Nicholas Negroponte at the World Economic Summit in
>>>> | Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28, 2005.
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>>                         http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/52283.html
>>> 
>>> You know... this is fantastic stuff and I hope it goes well. But I can't
>>> help but wonder if the money could be spent better on stuff like, food,
>>> medicine or security.
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I'm jaded. But I can't help  but imagining the image of some
>>> starving kid, in a place with no electricity, running water or food busy
>>> hacking his new laptop... It just doesn't fit...
>>> 
>>> But that said, it's whay cool. I wonder how long it will be, before the
>>> laptops start turning up elsewhere.
>> 
>> I guess it's a matter of teaching a man to fish so he can feed himself,
>> for life. It's a long-term investment. Think, for example, about giving
>> pennies to a homeless man rather than offering the guy a job and some
>> shelter.
>> 
> 
> That's how I was taught... a parabole... My mom was great with an "old
> saying" and a "short switch"... :')
> 
>> The laptop is intended to bring education that increases one's product
>> from the crops, helps birth control and so forth. As a first step, that
>> is.
>> 
>> Don't forget that the OLPC project is aimed at countries and continents
>> other than Africa. Hunger is not the pressing issue everywhere.
>> 
> 
> That, I did not know. Thanks. And thank you, Roy, for all the linux posts.
> I appreciate each and everyone of them.

Thanks. You said something else that was flattering in another thread. It
keeps me going...

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