India rejects One Laptop Per Child (Register) [LWN.net]

India rejects One Laptop Per Child (Register)

Posted Jul 27, 2006 2:44 UTC (Thu) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)
In reply to: India rejects One Laptop Per Child (Register) by surajvijayan
Parent article: India rejects One Laptop Per Child (Register)

Giving a laptop to every child is a crazy idea, it does nothing other than fatten the pockets of private companies...

<cynic> I think you forgot an important part to that sentence:
"...at the expense of governments!"

This gives me repsect for India. As for Nigeria... I think the biggest exposure most of us have to that government is the constant spam scams, and now this. ;) They obviously don't have issues taking handouts, we'll see how many of these end up on Nigerian bureaucrats' desks, when questioned about it you can expect the same answer as when questioned about the 409 scams! </cynic>

I know that that response was worthy of slashdot, but I am getting a little tired of all the coverage given to this project which is obviously of a highly political nature. And when I say political, it is not like RMS's politics which are directly relevant to free software. This has to do with giant subsidies and socialism, not free software. OK, I admit the technical articles about OLPC were very interesting... Maybe I'm just a little grumpy tonight. I can't help but wonder how many others are getting tired of this vaporware spotlight (just because it will supposedly run free software does not make it vaporware!)

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