One simputer could easily be afforded by an entire village...
In India, some 68,000 village women have become mobile phone operators serving the entire village. It is not unreasonable to think that something similar would happen with this device.
TeX has also been a noteworthy example of free, shared, but
high-quality software. Knuth offers a monetary awards to anyone who
found and reported bugs dating from before the 1989 code freeze; as the
years wore on and the few remaining bugs were fixed (and new ones even
harder to find), the bribe went up. Though well-written, TeX is so large
(and so full of cutting edge technique) that it is said to have unearthed
at least one bug in every Pascal system it has been compiled with.
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One simputer could easily be afforded by an entire village...
In India, some 68,000 village women have become mobile phone operators serving the entire village. It is not unreasonable to think that something similar would happen with this device.
Jargon file says it best:
TeX has also been a noteworthy example of free, shared, but high-quality software. Knuth offers a monetary awards to anyone who found and reported bugs dating from before the 1989 code freeze; as the years wore on and the few remaining bugs were fixed (and new ones even harder to find), the bribe went up. Though well-written, TeX is so large (and so full of cutting edge technique) that it is said to have unearthed at least one bug in every Pascal system it has been compiled with.
Namaskar guys! I definately agree, Goa is happening, although most of my coding occurs
under the powerful beats of hardcore bhangra.