OLPC Mass Production Begins

chris_mahan writes to tell us that mass production of the $100 laptop is finally being ramped up. "Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. Previously, the organization behind the scheme said that it required orders for 3m laptops to make production viable. The first machines should be ready to put into the hands of children in developing countries in October 2007. "There's still some software to write, but this is a big step for us," Walter Bender, head of software development at One Laptop per Child (OLPC), told the BBC News website."

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Re:So in a year or so...

[elrous0]

Call it schadenfreude, but I'm going to laugh my ass off if this grand noble effort just results in a slew of new ID thieves and scammers in Africa, a Muslim backlash against internet immorality, and a thriving black market in OLPC laptops stolen from kids or redirected by corrupt officials. Throwing laptops at kids in shithole countries may sound like a great idea, but that's making a LOT of assumptions (that they'll only use them for good, that the officials in their countries will actually distribute them rather than sell them, etc.).