Maybe the problem is you.

Maybe the problem is you.

Posted Jul 6, 2006 21:27 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Let them eat Cake by botsie
Parent article: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part II)

I think that most of the people on the OLPC team have a pretty good idea about the so called third world.

The first idea is that these places are NOT all like some commercials with everyone living in garbage shipped from the USA, or that they are being ravaged by dysentary or the hulligans next door. Yes there are parts of the world where war, clean water, disease, etc are the primary concerns for people to survive. The OLPC would not be a good candidate for them. It is a good candidate for relatively stable places where people are trying to make the lives of their children better but couldn't afford the USD 200 pricetag for the lowest end computers.

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