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If You Want to Change the World, You've Got to Buy Big

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One of the distinctive — and perhaps, most successful — aspects of the One Laptop Per Child Program is the level to which individuals have been able to effect change on a global scale. The project's Open Source offerings are, of course, a prime example of this, but so too are the financial offerings that have put the program's product in the hands of some half-million users. The era of individual-based change is coming to an end, however, as an email leaked last week has revealed the end of the program's small-scale giving, known — ironically enough — as "Change the World."

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ColonelPanik ·
All about the $$$$? The kids who received the first 500,000+ OLPCs would argue about how important the money was.

This kind of project should never have been placed in the hands of corporations. Just like the netbooks being sold with Linux Distros, the whole concept is way beyond the corporate mind set.

hkwint ·
Not only the corporations, stupid politicians such as a certain one in Libya who are easily manipulated by some other stupid companies are to blame as well.

If my (biased) sources about the leadership of Libya are correct, and I assume they are because they were quite closely related to Libya, the leaders over there just don't have a clue. One month they might like OLPC, the next month they might like Intel (??? I thought they don't like Israel?) and Microsoft and the next month they might dislike anything American.

Probably what happened in Libya happened in more countries.

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