Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

Posted Jun 28, 2006 22:00 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #216)
In reply to: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I) by faassen
Parent article: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

I wonder if they've considered making these available to the developed world at inflated prices, to subsidize the developing world machines. It would help the economy of scale, too. As long as they keep with the priority being the developing world (i.e., they ignore requests for features that would be useless to the kids in the village), it might be helpful. (Maybe?

Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

Posted Jun 28, 2006 23:00 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

I HOPE so.

Because I realy realy realy freaking want one of these things and I don't want to get it from some bozo stealing laptops from children to sell on ebay.

Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

Posted Jun 29, 2006 11:13 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

I'm thinkin' a six pack o' them gadgets would be a great way to do a first compile-farm project.

Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

Posted Jun 29, 2006 0:14 UTC (Thu) by gjmarter (guest, #5777) [Link]

A commercial version has certainly been discussed.

Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

Posted Jun 29, 2006 0:33 UTC (Thu) by dododge (guest, #2870) [Link] (1 responses)

wonder if they've considered making these available to the developed world at inflated prices, to subsidize the developing world machines.

Since late last year there's been an effort to drum up support for doing exactly that. Bear in mind this has no official involvement with OLPC; it's just an attempt to convince them that there's enough of a market to make them available.

Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

Posted Jun 29, 2006 9:56 UTC (Thu) by jg (guest, #17537) [Link]

Convincing isn't the issue.

We're focused right now on getting the kids machine out, and what
others have done on our behalf is sufficient.
Regards,
- Jim

Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

Posted Jun 29, 2006 9:54 UTC (Thu) by jg (guest, #17537) [Link]

Yes, there is already such a web site.
Regards,
- Jim