[Ldsoss] One Laptop Per Child

[pat eyler]

On 1/5/07, Thomas Haws <tom.haws at gmail.com> wrote:
> Keep in mind that these will not be gifts "from the people of the US".  They
> will be sold to the governments for use as textbooks in schools.  That
> changes the dynamic considerably.
>

Hmm, instead of the receiving governments getting them for free from
the US, they're paying for them.  Other than the need to charge a higher
price to get their money back, I'm not sure I see how the dynamic is
changed.



> Tom
>
>  On 1/5/07, Shawn Willden <shawn-ldsoss at willden.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 05 January 2007 09:38, m h wrote:
> > > I'm not sure I get your point.  Are you saying that the interface
> > > should be the same as "grown up" computers?  Or are you saying that if
> > > you were traveling through Africa you wouldn't stoop down low enough
> > > to use said computer created by "Americans"?
> >
> > I think he's saying that the laptops may not actually make it to the kids
> > they're intended to serve.  I can see the point, but I'm hopeful that the
> > design is sufficiently kid-oriented that most of them will.
> >
> > I fiddled with the VMWare image a bit, too, and found it to be very, very
> > different, and hard for me to use.  That's not to say that it's a bad
> > interface, in fact I think the logic behind it makes a lot of sense.  It's
> > just not what I'm used to.
> >
> >         Shawn.
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