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Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K

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. Mexico is only ordering 50K? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are we handing them out at the border or something?

  2. Colombia by 4D6963 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Peru's government has announced they want 260,000 OLCPs [CC] and a Mexican billionaire by the name of Carlos Slim has also asked for 50,000 that he wishes to distribute in Mexico.

    In other news Colombia has proposed to help the OLPC organisation respond to the increased demand by manufacturing hundreds of thousands of OLPC laptops and shipping them to the USA, thereby only letting the non-profit organisation take care of the worldwide distribution of the laptops.

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  3. Keep Going, Man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Troll, you're right, Slashdot doe SUX0RZ, and we need you to keep doing your hilarious customized goatse captions.

    Who'd have thought that a troll on slashdot was one of the better parts of my workday?

  4. 260k? Get the 1 Meg version dammit by thewils · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll find they can run a lot more programs concurrently. Don't believe all that '640k is enough for anybody' bumf.

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  5. Save them---PLEASEEEEEEE..poor children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could the poor children get some Macs instead... please save the world!

  6. Re:If you had read the other article... by dvice_null · · Score: 5, Funny

    > If people had bothered to read the ... article

    This is Slashdot. Not even the editors read the articles. There are only 10 people here who read the articles. First is the submitter and the other is you.

  7. Re:If you had read the other article... by calebt3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not even the submitter reads it.

  8. Re:Carlos Slim by grassy_knoll · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but he does have Olympic medals in both Limbo and Sex... ... err, wait.. that's Barbados Slim...

    [badum-ching]

  9. Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hey Troll, hope you read this.

    You have one of the funniest long-runnings troll posts on slashdot, keep it up! It makes my day!

  10. A mexican Billionaire... by mkirsch · · Score: 3, Funny
  11. Re:Richest man not just "some Mexican billionaire" by rbanffy · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, but this is Slashdot. When Bill Gates ceases to be the richest man in the world, I would expect /.ers to take notice.

  12. Re:If you had read the other article... by edittard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Incorrect, the submitters always read the articles. If they didn't, then once in a while an accurate summary would arise by pure dumn luck.

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  13. Re:CompUSA by lymond01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Except that the OLPC systems run Linux. What are the chances of finding someone at CompUSA who would know anything about them? Might as well take it to 7/11.

    And if a computer tech from a major store can't figure out GUI linux, how can we expect it to make inroads into mass market?

    I have some hope...if we can incorporate texting into the command line, we may be able to hook an entire generation of kids:

    user@ubuntubox:~$ what r u
    Description: Ubuntu 6.10

    user@ubuntubox:~$ sup
    top - 14:36:37 up 39 days, 4:21, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
    Tasks: 70 total, 2 running, 68 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
    Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st

    user@ubuntubox:~$ stfu
    This server is going down for shutdown NOW!

  14. Re:Carlos Slim by bwd234 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looking at his photo, he doesn't look all that slim to me.

  15. Re:CompUSA by Eco-Mono · · Score: 2, Funny

    /usr/bin/please on my system is a symlink to /usr/bin/sudo.

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  16. Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey Mr Troll, in Mexico, you too can be a peso menunaire!
    Go ahead, indulge in refried chorizo tacos with a dash of medium-rare pork's ass.
    Then have a blast with whatever comes out the other end and report back to us.

    (BTW, if any mexican geek out there caught the Santos vs La Tetona Mendoza reference, I salute you!)