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Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop project

hindustantimes.com — Wow! This is low... sure the $100 laptops are backed by Google (Microsoft competitor) but it is just in bad taste to slam a computer made for developing countries!

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  • GeekyGirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gates says, "If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type."

    Hmmm, I am sure that rural areas in Africa and many other places (the target markets for the MIT system) have broadband and plentiful, stable electricity in every village. Geez, I can't even get broadband for my parents' house in rural Ohio.

  • Genius16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah but not when you're making umpteen version of "Windows Vista" which includes a "basic" edition for developing nations. *Sigh* i hate money pigs like Bill.

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