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Bill Gates on the hundred dollar laptop
Bill Gates comments on the hundred-dollar laptop. From mix and mash with bill | gotomobile:
For rich people to supply laptops to the poor seems like it's addressing the wrong problem. There are more people who think PC's will solve the world's problems. Unless you get the roles in place it has a tendency to get overblown.
Our solution is to put PC's into every library. If you can get to a library, you can get to a PC. Microsoft funded the hardware and supplied the software. It's been carried out in Chile, Mexico and Botswana...
Granted, he might be misquoted - this appears to be a paraphrase, not necessarily an exact quote... but if it's an accurate quote, that's a strange thing to say about the outstanding One Laptop Per Child project. Can't both efforts be worthwhile?
Otherwise, of course, I admire Gates for his philanthropic work. (See Hats off to Bill Gates)
