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Re: Gates on OLPC

Linonut wrote:

> * nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx fired off this tart reply:
> 
>> <Quote>
>> Gates: OLPC hasn't done that well. Emerging markets are growing for
>> PCs, people are doing cheap PCs. We've always believed in cheap PCs.
>> If the hardware were free, we'd be happy. We're about the software.
>> We're in literally over 100 countries with special versions of
>> Windows, including Starter Edition. OLPC is nowhere compared to where
>> we are on this thing. If that form factor, some people want to use
>> that, we'll make sure Windows is available on that.
>> </Quote>
>>
>> http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9843783-56.html
> 
> You left out another BGBF (Bill Gates Brain Fart):
> 
>    That's called Phone Plus. Our lab in China is doing some very
>    interesting work. That general idea is that as you could walk
>    around with the phone that it could use any big screen that shows
>    up, that's going to be just standard stuff. The phone will be the
>    entry PCs for a lot of people.
> 
> Here's another one:
> 
>    What good is any PC now without broadband or without an Internet
>    connection? It's not worth all that much. When somebody says I am
>    going to XYZ country, ask them what the connectivity strategy is.
>    That's the expensive part. Not the hardware, not the software. It's
>    either the training, the special content, or the broadband.
> 
> Never heard of the mesh network, 'ave ye Bill?


Sounds like Billy Goat is a spliffer like all his
mates like Blammer and the asstroturfing turds working this ng.



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