[NTLUG:Discuss] The $100 Laptop

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jul 13 16:42:07 CDT 2006


On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:16:38PM -0500, steve wrote:
> I can recommend checking out the Wiki they put up - there are lot of
> quite interesting ideas there.
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> [...]
> 
> I think there should be a campaign to sell these machines into the US
> domestic market for $300 - the deal being that you buy one for your own
> use - and two more get donated to needy kids someplace in your name.
> 
> Even at $300 it would be a great machine to have around and having a
> large number of geeks owning them would drastically increase the amount
> of software developed for them.

I totally agree.  Did you add this suggestion to the laptop.org
wiki?  (Or is it already there?)

Pm



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