$100 laptop - Blue e-book
Here's some very interesting possibilities for $100 laptops being developed for developing countries by the famed Nicholas Negroponte (of MIT's Media Lab, and author of "Being Digital")
Obviously, if they can put the computer into a child in Africa's hands for $100, open source software is the only way to go to make the project work. It raises the interesting question: Does open source work now because, as a percentage of the cost of the total system, hardware as come down in absolute terms so much that software has gone up? In other words, if the computer was still $5,000, would anyone worry about $250 for Office?
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