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First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

An anonymous reader noted that MITs $100 laptop was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. It runs a special version of the Fedora linux and it comes with native wireless lan support. You can see the photo album, and you can pledge to buy one at triple price... in order to donate 2 of them to children.

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  1. Freedom where art thou? by Distinguished+Hero · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You can see the photo album, and you can pledge to buy one at triple price... in order to donate 2 of them to children.

    Can I just one buy one at the regular price without being discriminated against (see price discrimination). Forced charity is no charity at all.

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    1. Re:Freedom where art thou? by Distinguished+Hero · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Tell you what. Why don't you move to Africa with no money or resources, try to find work or an education, with little food, little to no medical care, the constant threat of violence, an unstable government, while relying on the kindness of strangers to even have a stab at making a decent life for yourself?

      I was born and spent over 45% of my life in an underdeveloped shithole of a country where if you wanted food you had to stand in a line for hours on end, and if you said the wrong thing about the government "bad things" would happen to you and your family. Quit the condescending knee-jerk emotional arguments when you don't even know the first thing about me or my life. Address my points (price discrimination, how do they plan to prevent arbitrage?) or go wank your self-righteous self at the expense of others somewhere else.

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    2. Re:Freedom where art thou? by Distinguished+Hero · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      How can a topical, point by point rebuttal of a post currently modded +4, Insightful be modded down all the way to -1, Offtopic? The hypocrisy of the average Slashdot moderator is astounding. Come on, mod this down as well, prove me right! May you all rot in meta-moderation hell (or purgatory, as the case may be).

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  2. And it looks like... by ylikone · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...something Fisher Price would put out. Or maybe a speak-and-spell. Still, I wouldn't mind getting one for playing around with.

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  3. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The photo gallery shows pictures of black, poor people smiling on the laptop screens. Is this some sort of niggerdevice? Why? I mean, it's not like niggers can use computers anyway! What is the point of even manufacturing these machines? They'll probably tie them to sticks and use them to prod down bananas from trees!

  4. Fr'ist stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Claim that BSD is a Is 3ying and its

  5. Source of Very Cheap Labor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I see they're trying to build up a pool of cheap labor.

  6. Fedora? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A toy OS for toy PCs.

    Fedora is the worst piece of crap OS I have ever seen, these Red Hat money grubbers really have no idea what they are doing.

    It burns my ass that they will be getting all this free publicity.

  7. Re:These look great! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only one I am familiar with (Steve), offered free Mac OS X licenses to this group for all the laptops. His offer was declined [macnn.com]. You can argue all you want about his motives,

    Jobs was aware of the requirements of the one laptop per child project & new that OS X was totally unsuited. I think offering that license knowing it would be refused & cause confusion amongst mac fans was distracting, detracting & downplaying the project.

    but you really can't say that he "downplayed" anything.

    I'm afraid I just did :D

    I do agree with you tho' that Job's was smarter & classier about his downplaying then Gate's vitriol & pettiness.

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  8. Re:4 colors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Go back to 4chan, ya idiot wapanese. Speak your own fucking language.