Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> OLPC official challenges Michael Dell
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Walter Bender, the One Laptop Per Child program's director of software, told
>| DesktopLinux.com on July 13 that he invites Dell Computer founder and CEO
>| Michael Dell to help figure out how to better use 125 million computers that
>| are discarded annually because they are archaic.
> `----
>
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6331409497.html
>
> Context here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5625
>
> Also here:
> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10005621o-2000331759b,00.htm
>
> The Register also covers the Intel-OLPC story properly...
>
> OLPC czar shames Intel into board seat
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/13/intel_joins_olpc/
125 million computers per year. So, after a decade, we will have buried
1 and 1/4 thousand million computers. That's enough kit to cover most
continents in one go. The only hole to be patched is around persuading
people that linux on older hardware is functional and effective, against
the marketing monster of Microsoft.
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