I don't think anyone can possibly know what this is going to do.  But we can 
know what it *might* do.  It might raise the level of education 
*drastically* in a lot of countries.  For someone to piss and moan because 
they saw "millions of laptops" and don't get to tax it is just embarrassing.


>From: Blake <blake at kingdomrpg.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate
>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:18:19 -0800
>
>On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:11:56 -0800, J J <azreal1977 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>And predictably stupid.  As Bill Gates and Co. have no concerns in this  
>>world other then money, the best thing that could possibly happen for  
>>them is for more of the world to get educated and start producing wealth  
>>(which turns into money sooner or later, and windows/intel is largely  the 
>>only real alternative for personal computing at the moment).  But  instead 
>>they focus on the fact that they don't get to tax *this*  transaction.
>
>I don't style myself savvy enough to understand the difficulties the  
>project will encounter once it finally gets on the ground, but to not root  
>for it--to hope for its failure couched in terms of "realism" and  
>pseudo-intellectualism, this strikes me as the worst sort of narcissism.
>

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