Yesterday at 9:55pm, Thomas Haws said:
I'm sure if the church offered to buy a million, OLPC would sell. Do you
think the LDS Foundation or the church could do that? They won't be
shipping for another year.
In short, anyone that wants to come up with $100 Million can buy a million
little laptops and do whatever they want with them, and distribute them
however they want.
Perhaps these laptops would have a use as part of the Perpetual Education
Fund program - I'm sure there are people for whom a computer would be a
huge educational opportunity that could help break the cycle of poverty.
That may be cramped however if these laptops aren't similar enough to
"normal" computers, since a significant amount of learning and practice
with these wouldn't carry over to the "real world" of computers.
Mac
On 1/5/07, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder if the Church could help with these laptops. If a religious
organization were to purchase some and hand them out I wonder if they
would be more likely to get to their intended destinations with
appropriate training. Are they selling these only to governmental
organizations or have they approached charitable ones as well?
Jesse
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