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OLPC Announces Buy-2-Get-1 XO Laptop Sale
theodp writes "Starting November 12, The One Laptop Per Child Project will sell its affordable XO laptop to Americans for a brief period of time, but there's a slight catch: U.S. buyers must purchase two computers — one for their own child and one for a child in the developing world — for a total cost of $399. 'Staff members of the laptop project were concerned that American children might try the pared-down machines and find them lacking compared to their Apple, Hewlett-Packard or Dell laptops. Then, in this era of immediate global communications, they might post their criticisms on Web sites and blogs read around the world, damaging the reputation of the XO Laptop, the project staff worried. So the laptop project sponsored focus-group research with American children, ages 7 to 11, at the end of August. The results were reassuringly positive.'"
Good to see that Bush has finally stuffed your country economically, like he's done with your internal legislation and Foreign Policy....
When you come begging to us, don't expect to get any favors! Maybe we'll come down and set fire to your White House again?
You ramped up the price to make Windows run and now look for excuses? Well, I think I'll root for Asus EEE (10" machine looks really really good as a replacement for almost all of the functions people's desktop and laptops do, but even 7" is not too shabby either). Bonus points is that by default it's KDE oriented as opposed to evil GNOME on OLPC/XO.
Fuck you, Crackster.
Fuck you for being a pretentious asshole, assuming everyone wants exactly what you want
Fuck you for advocating and trivialising a self-destructive practice like piracy, and thus damage to our culture and economy
Fuck you for trying to poison an innocent poll with your political crap
Fuck you for perpetuating the fallacy that consumers are allowed to do whatever they want with whatever they want despite legislation
Fuck you for being such a hypocrite when you sanction fair use as a legal right
Fuck you for implying that beneficial legislation like the DMCA is somehow result of corruption or at least a flaw in the system
Fuck you for coddling foreign countries as if they didn't have a choice what culture they import
Fuck you for perpetuating another fallacy: that commercialisation is always bad, despite clear benefits to the movie industry
Fuck you for forcing a weak, misleading, and completely disingenuous connection between the fiction of movies and the MPAA's rhetoric
Fuck you for caving shamelessly to cognitive dissonance regarding the MPAA