$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)

$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Feb 3, 2006 14:00 UTC (Fri) by fjf33 (subscriber, #5768)
In reply to: $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet) by sbergman27
Parent article: $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)

Well I came from a developing country (which makes it possible for people to have $500 computers) and still we didn't have books, as you think of them. Why? Because they were too expensive for what you get from them. Class notes would be passed from student to student and professors actually taught without reading from a book. There would be notes mimeographed (yes I know it is an ancient technology but still cheaper than photocopies) that was in highschool. In college it gets a bit more complex but still, the professors developed the books (or class notes as they were called) and the student organization would print them in small runs of cheap paper on the sides of runs that were done for higher paying customers at a very low price so us students could afford it. Overall, probably $100 worth in books for an engineering degree. If one needed more detailed highly advanced information from a Developed World book, one could go to the library. Then the problem is that all of those are in English but people manages, although probably in highschool all those English books would not have been too useful.

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