Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> If Business Succeeds with GNU/Linux, Why Not OLPC?
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> | The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project ? which aimed to give
> | underprivileged children around the world
You need to stop believing the PR.
The OLPC is yet another disaster project that comes out of CMU to
to con governments around the world.
It started life by its originator as a project to make a
laptop company with 50 people at the core and all
the work farmed out to taiwan and china.
They needed an 'excuse' to make them look big and that
was the OLPC idea. The OLPC idea was raped to give
them headlines. Unfortunately, most governments and
buyers did not buy into it because they could
see that the hardware is not open source and its of no
benefit to them buying this laptop when they could
instead directly commission cheaper laptops from Taiwan, China, India
and many other countries that already had the technology
and working machines.
When the dream turned to dust, they went to Micoshaft.
In my opinion anyone can make a PC with better specs than
OLPC. They just need to talk to the numerous suppliers
of PCs in Taiwan or China.
Spending a million dollars will get you somewhere
between 5000 and 10,000 laptops.
But selling that to governments is an ENTIRELY different matter.
Poor countried are not going to dish out millions of dollars
for laptops. And then there are import tarrifs.
Many of these coutries would opt to pay something if for example
many of the laptop parts were made in their country
and companies were willing to set up injection molding factories,
metal stamping factories, PCB manufacturing facilities and the like.
Because what little money governments pay will result in 10x benefit
from jobs and industry.
I'm sure the guys from CMU knew all that. So they screemed at the
top their lungs about PCs for children so that any opposition
would get muted.
That is entirely a freak show of nuts from CMU doing their thing.
This is not how the world works any more.
These guys need to open source the software AND hardware
and allow local factories to be built to make the laptops
as part of the package if they are to be ever welcomed.
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> | education ? may have been stifled though a combination of disinformation
> | and other coordinated efforts by hardware and software monopolies that
> | wanted to stop it.
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