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$100 PC Pledges Fail To Meet Minimum

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the limits-of-generosity dept.

bobthemuse writes, "Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop PC was demonstrated back in May, and a PledgeBank was set up: the goal was to get 100,000 people to purchase an OLPC for $300, allowing the project to send two of the devices to the proposed users. Today the pledge ended and only 3,678 people had signed up." It looks like a mention in Slashback a few weeks ago gave a boost to the effort, but not a big enough one.

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  1. What they should do to make it sell like hot cakes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    At least to your average /.'er.

    - First, you announce that the laptop will run with a closed source proprietary OS. The exact one isn't important, though something from Microsoft would be a big help.

    - Second, you also announce that it will run a small limited subset of apps.

    - Third, you produce the laptops and let them loose in the wild.

    - Fourth, it's "discovered" that the laptop can be hacked to run Linux.

    - Fifth, sit back and watch those /. orders at $300 a pop come flooding in!