Helo Satish, Taran, Chakrabarti,Chris, Tom & All, By now we understood $100 Laptop is not a single handed job! It needs every tuches, numerous supports, namely technological, economical, social etc. The way our discussion developing step by step, hope the day is not far off, $100 Laptop is not a mere dream!! Sadeque
Tom Brough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Cindy Lemcke-Hoong wrote: >> >> >> Right now, I think 64 Meg of storage space should be sufficient, if only >> the texts were available in an electronic format. And that is the point >> that quite a few people have been making throughout the $100 laptop >> debate, as well as the debate on any technology... where's the material? >> >> And why are we building machines when we don't even have the material? >> If you mean lack of "free" content provision perhaps: http://www.gutenberg.org/ and http://www.wikipedia.org/ There are also numerous other science archives that give content freely, but these are the two big "free" content providers / generators that come to mind instantly. Guttenberg have always provided there texts in text (ascii) format, making it compact, efficient and free, so long as Disney (and others who's name I refuse to advertise but have the biggest law firm in Redmond begins with an M ... you know who I mean) dont keep lobbying governments to extend copywrite indefinately, simply to stop people copying micky..... As far as I am concerned, they can keep him ;-) I have used vi and less to read these from the command line on an old 386 16Mb ram IIRC... tad overpowered for the job if you ask me , but then Im a geek. But I accept your point, there are plenty of websites that lock away valuable content until such time as a fee is paid. I guess thats what you get for allowing commercial interests to take over the world wide wait. Oh dear i feel like a DRM trauma brewing ...... Tom. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Personals Skip the bars and set-ups and start using Yahoo! Personals for free _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
