Thanks for answering the roll call. And now, a question.

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote:

>> What we're missing now is the complimentary push for a big, ambitious
>> vision (that is simultaneously quite practical) that will catch
>> people's attention and make them think of free software as something
>> other than a low-rent alternative.  OLPC's the best chance we're going
>> to get for that.  It is our big splash.  And I think it is the right
>> thing, pedagogically and technologically.
>>
>> --Tom
>
> Being that this initiative is being developed in the US, I sure wish we 
> weren't put on the back burner.  We sure could use the OLPC program in 
> our school, but from what I read that won't be a possibility for a few 
> years.

If you can convince one of the states in the union to pony up for the cash 
to guarantee a million units, I'll bet you could be on the front burner 
pretty quick.  Seriously.

--g

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