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Who are the idiots digging him down.They need clean water, food and education.What do you expect when you give them a laptop.They'll create the next Google and become billionaires?

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one of the problems with this project is that people in developed countries see the rest of the world in black and white. There are _plenty_ of areas where there is no problem with food and water but there is problem with education. Hell, places in mid-US can benefit from OLPC. Such places are the real market for OLPC, not the hypotetical sub-saharan Africa.

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Everyone is overreacting. Nothing was stumped. OLPC continues unabated. Here's a quote from the TFA:---There are no signs that Mr. Negroponte's project is in danger of fading away. Robert Fadel, its director of finance and operations, says the nonprofit has enough funding to last years. Its dozen corporate benefactors this year contributed $16.5 million, and it will be using $1 from each computer sold to cover administrative costs. Last year, it took in $7.6 million in revenue, mainly from donors, and its budget this year is about $9.5 million. As of September, it had $8.7 million in cash on hand, an internal document indicates.---

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Here let me sum this up for you. If you think using a command line makes people better computer users - you're a f**king fool. Get some experience in the industry - a million monkeys on a million command lines doesn't mean s**t. Never has and never will. The only people that need to f**k with it are server admins and programmers - the rest of the world just needs it to work.

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The bicycle part is probably true. But since digg is not a biker site and the folks at the MIT aren't bicycle-affictionados, they've came up with this idea.A laptop is a laptop, and it can be used for virtually anything even in the middle of the desert.They've got schools but they haven't got paper or pen, this eliminates the need for both.. they've given a copy of wikipedia, and that's more than you could give them on paper, ever...

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the unscrupulous can take advantage of any situation for profit or otherwise. In this case I'd say since they have been given lots of money by very carefully donors the onus is on you to offer some reasonable hypothosis as to who or how is pimping the poor in this case. Is it by getting lots of western organizations to donate money and resources to this project and trying to keep resources as low as possible? Tell me how its even worth the time to pimp people without electricity etc. in this way?

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I think that the main benefit of creating a competing device rather than assisting OLPC is that they then control the platform.

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Although you never get around to saying it, I guess you mean that the eeepc is an alternative to the olpc machine? I don't know if that is true. Is the eeepc built from the ground up to be taken apart, does it contain a kid friendly interface, does it run on a crank. does it have a screen that is readable even in daylight? The olpc is built for this and more.

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I'm a conservative and i was like. Where did that come from?

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