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Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the see-we're-not-scared dept.

eldavojohn writes "Perhaps in response to recent news that the lawsuit against the OLPC may be a scam, Peru's government has announced they want 260,000 OLPCs and a Mexican billionaire by the name of Carlos Slim has also asked for 50,000 that he wishes to distribute in Mexico. Things are looking good for the OLPC."

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  1. OLPC Needs Appropriate Softare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The One Laptop Per Child program should be preloaded with call center software and a "bad English" tutor to prepare 3rd world chldren for their future.

  2. So... orders make it less of a scam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I still don't see how spending $200 for a $100 gimped Lunix machine which doesn't even work isn't a scam. Scamming orders from people who don't know any better is supposed to make it less of a scam?

    Since the OLPC project is, allegedly, "all about the kids"... than why is it being used as a pretty blatent attempt at force-feeding a non-Windows and non-Intel tinker toy on them? If it were "all about the kids"... wouldn't they be cheering about the $200 Intel Classmate and the $30 Windows/Office package?

    But of course not. This is just another lame FOSSie attempt to force people into using Lunix... which realistically nobody wants. They've tried to claim that anyone providing alternatives to the OLPC is somehow racist, and they've tried their hardest to torpedo any alternative to OLPC. They've even had upper management threaten to quit if the OLPC ever goes with a Windows based solution.

    So please... tell us again the OLPC isn't, like Lunix, a project with a hidden agenda, a project which has nothing to do with helping kids in poor countries.

    1. Re:So... orders make it less of a scam? by Rich0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Uh, if you don't like the idea of discriminatory pricing, then you probably won't like OLPC. I think the people making it will charge double-price to individuals, with the extra money going to donate one overseas. A nice gesture on one hand, but it means that fewer will get sold overall which means higher prices and thus less children with one overseas...

  3. Re:CompUSA by CastrTroy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't think you know what 10 fold means. If the markup was 10 fold, the cost price of the $20 cables would have been 2 cents.

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  4. that's no good by circletimessquare · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    the summary said peru ordered 260K OnLine Complex Processings (olcp). that's not going to help the cause of One Laptop per Child (olpc)

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