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OLPC official challenges Michael Dell

desktoplinux.com — Walter Bender, the One Laptop Per Child program's director of software, told DesktopLinux.com on July 13 that he invites Dell Computer founder and CEO Michael Dell to help figure out how to better use 125 million computers that are discarded annually because they are archaic.

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  • schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1FTA: "According to Dell, inexpensive laptops won't meet the needs of their intended recipients. To illustrate his point, he noted that roughly 125 million computers come out of circulation every year worldwide, but aren't recycled because they're considered archaic. "

    Maybe Dell would also like to provide electricity to run these machines in third-world countries? They already have enough trouble trying to charge those OLPCs in Nigeria. Not to mention the effect of those 'PC landfills' being shipped to poor countries where they end up poisoning the area...

    There's not much drama in this article.
  • aelias, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Folding clusters?

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