Low cost computing for emerging communities
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| A perfect example is Mr. Gates idea of using cell phones as a means
| to deliver pre-packaged services developed in and licensed by Microsoft
| in a restricted fashion by telecom carriers, and hooking them up to
| television sets. This Microsoft suggests is somehow a "better" solution
| than the $100 One Laptop per Child project that they try to sabotage,
| for addressing the "needs" of students in poor communities. Given that
| these actual needs the $100 laptop had to address included students
| carrying such machines to and from school, I have to wonder if Microsoft
| also advocates students carry television sets from their homes each
| school day.
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