One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order

An anonymous reader writes "DesktopLinux.com is reporting that four countries have together ordered 4 million low-cost, Linux-based laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The countries of Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have each placed the 1 million unit orders."

Comments

What ever happened to the $100 laptops?

[Jrabbit05]

So we can slice laptop price for southeast Asian Contries but can't manage to do this with space flight? Am I missing something here or do we need to brain was the masses in to wanting they're own space fleet?

Good First Step....

[crhylove]

Now we just need to get all the poor in THIS country free education with cheap laptops. While we're at it, why don't we go ahead and fix the voting scandal situations by making them all voting terminals with thumbprint security. It seems like getting something like the OLPC campaign connected with real and legitimate democracy and voting is a good idea. Hell, we're spending 177 MILLION a day to be at war in Iraq, maybe we can take 150 days off (or a hell of a lot more), and have these laptops made for every citizen in the country, particularly those eligible to vote ($177M * 150days = ~$27B, 250Mpeople * $100Laptop = $25B (a little extra to hire a good open source programmer and implement the peer verifiable voting security system). Maybe then promoting democracy in other countries wouldn't seem so god damned hypocritical.

rhY