Yet another reason to get angry with Bill...

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 02:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> And before that it was hand threading toroid cores onto thin wires

.... 10 years ago my old electronics teacher showed me one of these
memory arrays... never heard of them again since... until you ! :-)

>  and 
> 300baud acoustic modems that were so unreliable we had to whistle the 
> notes into the mouthpiece to get a connection most times. 

Sounds cool, never heard of them (I am only 28 ;o), I will
investigate :o)))

> But seriously, this OLPC project has tons of scope, an opportunity to 
> make the Linux nay-sayers shut up and take notice.

Yep, I hope the whole world will hear of it, and hopefully its success,
and that it will get the richer countries to move their ass and switch
faster to Linux than they would have otherwise.
I started using Linux only 2 years ago, but what makes me sad is that
the supposedly "developed" countries are the ones that can't see the
light (or only very slowly), whereas the supposedly "developing"
countries, asia, africa, south America, seem much more pragmatic, they
add 2+2 and just go for it. They seem to have much more common sense and
will than most of the richer countries.
For example I just heard today that in Korea, they invest a lot in R&D,
and now they have 100MBps broadband for cheap, whereas here in France,
the max you can get is 20MBps, and I doubt you actually get the
advertised speed...

So, thanks to the "developing" countries for showing the developed ones,
the right way. Maybe Africa, Asia and south America soon be filled witrh
millions of Linux machines all over the place... :o))))))))))

--
Vince

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