---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:37:01 +0100
>From: Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>Subject: Re: Letter to OLPC  
>To: OpenBSD <misc@openbsd.org>
>
>On 2006/10/05 15:47, Bob Beck wrote:
>>      It is completely shameful. One Laptop Per Citizen - controlled by
>> the cabal. 
>
>The cabal with their bios-signing keys. I guess heretics need not apply.
>
>http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/a_secure_2b1_bios_up.html
>http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/negroponte_to_critic.html
>

criticizing OLPC is like criticizing jesus. gettys should use this in his next
poignant rebuttal, it will draw an even larger following of hollow heads. it's
also a means of switching it up on the reader so they don't become as bored with
the over-invocation of "the children". slap in the red cross like negroponte
suggested and you've got a 5 paragraph essay on your hands. 

this whole thing smacks of supplying "weapons" to me. by handing out laptops to
kids, the OLPC is clearly attempting to manufacture a relative comparative
advantage between children who have laptops and those who don't. it is no
different than the One Magnifying Glass Per Child or the One Knife Per Child
programs in this sense. just like supplying weapons to gov'ts that are friendly,
supplying laptops to children of friendly countries serves to generate a
dependence on the manufacturers of such goods. did i mention the starbucks and
viagra coupons that come with every laptop?

many on list have said that the more basic needs of human existance are
substantially more important: food, water, clothing, shelter, education,
medicine. without a base to build on, every structure is bound to collapse.
especially when it's profitable for it to do so. the hardware manufacturers
stand to reap considerable long term profits as a result of the market they will
build with this "selfless" "humanitarian" act.

every ponzi scheme must grow, lest it run out of steam.

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