[TriLUG] Anyone catch 60minutes last night concerning the OLPC?

Magnus magnus at trilug.org
Tue May 22 09:51:19 EDT 2007


Israel J. Pattison wrote:
> From that perspective, isn't the entire mission of OLPC something very close
> to "dumping"?  The whole idea of the project is to flood certain markets
> with devices at a fraction of the market price, right? 

There is no market price because OLPC invented the class of device that 
you suggest they are dumping.  It didn't really exist, nor did the 
market, until Negroponte started this mission.



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