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____/ Terry Porter on Sunday 14 December 2008 01:16 : \____
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> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:01:00 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Open source USB key to $2bn laptop plan
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>> | Speaking to iTnews, Cybersource CEO Con Zymaris said a $2 billion
>> funding | injection – double the original commitment – would be needed
>> to put some four | million netbooks on the desks of Australian school
>> students. |
>> | The Federal government estimates the total cost per laptop to be up to
>> $2,500 | over four years.
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> Way too much money as always, when $500 (retail) gets them a Linux Acer
> Aspire One netbook.
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> For $1000 over 4 years, they could replace them every two years!
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> Typical govt money wasters.
The 'drug dealers' want to dump now.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/91038,microsoft-still-in-race-for-australian-school-laptops-vic.aspx
Educators must /teach/ themselves about addition and lock-in. Else... they need
to go back to school.
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