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Re: OLPC Moves to ARM. Farewell, Windows XP?

After takin' a swig o' grog, Tim Smith belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> In article <Ogdul.14660$i9.8376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>  Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > The OLPC plan was basically "Give kids laptops--and maybe something will 
>> > happen.  We don't know if it will help them or hurt them.  But it will 
>> > be cool to find out".
>> 
>> You're full of it, Tim.
>> 
>> Why don't you go troll an OLPC forum?
>
> Go dig around their site, especially their Wiki, and you'll find a 
> document describing how they don't know what the effect of the OLPC will 
> be--just that it is going to somehow transform third world societies.

Cool.  But you're leaving out a lot of the motivations and work done, in a
transparent effort to trivialize the OLPC foundation's efforts and inflate
Microsoft's contribution.

-- 
Take it easy, we're in a hurry.

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