[MLUG] Anyone planning on getting a OLPC laptop?

[Jonathan King]

On 11/12/07, Pottinger, Hardy J. <PottingerHJ at umsystem.edu> wrote:
> Just in case anyone missed it, $200 of the $400 asking price is
> tax-deductable. Perhaps that might affect the math bouncing around here?

Not really. This just means you're buying 2 of them for $400. It's
just a gimmick.

> I think this is pretty clearly a shot at generating buzz, as well as
> getting the boxes into the hands of geeks, with the hope that enough
> geeks = healthy developer community. The asking price / donation /
> limited time offer, is just for buzz. I doubt it's supposed to make
> monetary sense one way or the other right now.

But if you want to save the world, you need to make monetary sense!
They should sell as many millions of these to first worlders as they
can to make sure that the unit cost gets low enough (and their profits
high enough) to save the world.

jking