Hello Stefan, Sunday, January 27, 2008, 1:14:46 AM, you wrote:
> But historically, computers have been available at all kinds of price > ranges, so people chose the price point that fit them. So, for the last > 15 years or so already computers have been chosen (in the wealthy > countries) to be cheaper than programmers. > Is there any reason to think that the same forces aren't at play in > lower-income nations? After all, cheap (typically second hand) > computers are easy to come by. what you mean by cheap computer? one which can't run modern software at all, smth like first IBM PC? :) in poor countries there is not just second-hand computers because local sources doesn't exist (in order to have 100k of second-hand computers people should buy the same 100k new computers a few years ago), and global import of second-hand computers is non-existant -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe