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