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People are allowed to criticize, but when it comes from the head of the program that they can't criticize the program, it should send cold chills down the backs of anyone who respects intellectual freedom. When a product?s (OLPC costs money so it?s a product) problems are blamed on a conspiracy and a desire of education ministers to oppress its population, I have to call it for what it is.
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Sour grapes?  Robert Crocker | 10/09/07
People are allowed to criticize  georgeou | 10/09/07
Please, this is all about your bruised ego - Give it a break move on -NT!  raycote | 10/09/07
Move on is just another way of saying don't you dare talk about the OLPC  georgeou | 10/09/07
Yes, that's been my experience too, George.  Absolutely | 12/03/07
Also, I'm not the one saying you can't criticize  georgeou | 10/09/07
Haven't you learned yet?  nmh | 10/09/07
Depends I think....  Laff | 10/09/07
Absolutely  nmh | 10/09/07
Apple...  Information_z | 10/09/07
Just a question...  paulinm@... | 10/09/07
Tire kickers amuse me but they do have their purposes I suppose....  Laff | 10/09/07
The problem with Apple  alaniane@... | 10/09/07
Don't know if I agree there.....  James Quinn | 10/09/07
But that is an opinion, hence the confusion  GuidingLight | 10/09/07
Ah I see I was not clear enough....  Laff | 10/09/07
The OLPC program...  Information_z | 10/09/07
If you want to get rid of human suffering....  Laff | 10/09/07
If you want to get rid of human suffering....  Laff | 10/09/07
This reminds me  alaniane@... | 10/09/07
Hey George, where is your contribution?  nomoremicrosoft | 10/09/07
That's exactly what I'm talking about  georgeou | 10/09/07
Hear Hear  maldain | 10/09/07
I agree.  thekclyon@... | 10/14/07
Responsible people...  Information_z | 10/09/07
Enviromentalists are the same way  nucrash | 10/09/07
wounded = wondered  nucrash | 10/09/07
Wonder no more...  Patrick Jones | 10/09/07
What they really need  frgough | 10/09/07
Wow...  rapson | 10/09/07
Are you allowed to say that???? happy  TranMan | 10/09/07
Shouldn't be...  nottheusual1 | 10/09/07
LOL  frgough | 10/09/07
Aye!  kingttx | 10/11/07
True evil  tonymcs@... | 10/09/07
Go talk to someone  frgough | 10/09/07
First of all there were not true communist states only  Laff | 10/10/07
Nope....  Laff | 10/10/07
Act locally, think globally...  Marty R. Milette | 10/09/07
wow, what an interesting story!  warren@... | 10/09/07
Let's cut to the chase  whisperycat | 10/09/07
Bill Gates hates kids so much that....  nucrash | 10/09/07
And your point is???  whisperycat | 10/09/07
By your logic  nucrash | 10/09/07
His point was you were full of BS.  osreinstall | 10/09/07
BS ahoy? Indeed  whisperycat | 10/09/07
The "Mysterious" blackmarket  GuidingLight | 10/09/07
Track record perhaps?  osreinstall | 10/09/07
Attacking the messenger  whisperycat | 10/09/07
Only the messengers with a vested interest.  osreinstall | 10/09/07
Teach a man to fish...  Pantalaimon | 10/09/07
Exactly Pantaliaimon  osreinstall | 10/09/07
top down bottom up  Pantalaimon | 10/09/07
Resources need elsewhere.  osreinstall | 10/09/07
You saw the light  davidfrazier1 | 10/09/07
Wasn't hard.  osreinstall | 10/09/07
Bill Gates has been involved in charity before OLPC  georgeou | 10/09/07
...and...  Information_z | 10/09/07
balance?  Badgered | 10/09/07
More misrepresntation??  whisperycat | 10/09/07
........  Badgered | 10/09/07
I guess you've never heard...  Marty R. Milette | 10/09/07
The apologista are out in force on this one  whisperycat | 10/09/07
Not as full of it as you  GuidingLight | 10/09/07
Hey, Moron ...  babyboomer57 | 10/09/07
Wake up.  Marty R. Milette | 10/09/07
Can I criticize the whole idiocy that is OLPC?  Patrick Jones | 10/09/07
AMEN !!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/09/07
Again with the all dogs have 4 legs so all animals are dogs **** please! NT  raycote | 10/09/07
Could that have to do with the fact  Michael Kelly | 10/09/07
Because  nizuse | 10/09/07
The Redmond take  whisperycat | 10/09/07
The whisperycat take  John Zern | 10/09/07
Many areas have more important needs...  JonathonDoe | 10/09/07
The goal is self help  chemist109 | 10/09/07
True  Patrick Jones | 10/10/07
They read it in a Windows ad  critic-at-arms | 10/09/07
Calculators will create math geniuses  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/09/07
Sad.  HypnoToad72 | 10/09/07
Obviously, you had an abacus or never got past  jacarter3 | 10/09/07
Yet another red herring from Mr. No_Epistemology - NT  raycote | 10/09/07
Yawn  kbaily05@... | 10/09/07
Quite.  HypnoToad72 | 10/09/07
How dare you  frgough | 10/09/07
ROFLMAO (nt)  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/09/07
The road to hell is paved with good intentions!  mwagner@... | 10/09/07
too true  D. T. Schmitz | 10/09/07
"It's the intention that counts! "  jacarter3 | 10/09/07
Because George, you are no politician.  osreinstall | 10/09/07
Politicians are corrupt (hopefully not journalists)  charbax@... | 10/09/07
$259 for this model here  georgeou | 10/09/07
What is the power consumption of that unit?  chemist109 | 10/09/07
The market doesn't seem to be agreeing with you  georgeou | 10/09/07
The Market?  notsofast | 10/09/07
Any market  georgeou | 10/09/07
AllAsus.com is a fake (You hopefully aren't)  charbax@... | 10/09/07
Right, anyone that doesn't agree with your pre-conceived conclusions is a s  georgeou | 10/09/07
EEE at $259 is sold at a loss  charbax@... | 10/09/07
You're just on a role today with one ludicrous claim after another  georgeou | 10/09/07
Asus and Intel only want to slow down OLPC  charbax@... | 10/10/07
I criticized it  scott1329 | 10/09/07
Kids wont outgrow browsing the Internet  charbax@... | 10/09/07
If low power were the overriding concern ...  mwagner@... | 10/09/07
XO is the most functionnal  charbax@... | 10/09/07
Utter nonsense  georgeou | 10/09/07
Classmate costs $400, consumes 20W  charbax@... | 10/10/07
Good piece, George!  mwagner@... | 10/09/07
Absolutely Correct .. Power MUST be close by...  babyboomer57 | 10/09/07
There are a lot of places with infrastructure power ONLY  critic-at-arms | 10/09/07
Schools you say? Aren't these wind-up toys intended for school kids?  babyboomer57 | 10/09/07
Schools  notsofast | 10/09/07
Read the post I was responding to ....  babyboomer57 | 10/09/07
That's true, but  notsofast | 10/09/07
RE: OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize  ejpoleii | 10/09/07
Give One - Get One  nottheusual1 | 10/09/07
That isn't the point, he was asking why you can't buy one by itself  georgeou | 10/09/07
The tax deduction makes it $200 by itself  charbax@... | 10/09/07
That's assuming you can take a tax detuction and it assumes you're taxed at  georgeou | 10/09/07
typo fix - should have been this.  georgeou | 10/09/07
RE: typo fix  n0neXn0ne | 10/10/07
It wasn't designed for the US market  georgeou | 10/09/07
It'll be a hit in the US market  charbax@... | 10/09/07
Let's Wait and See  orcmid | 10/09/07
Keyboard is rubber and it has zero feedback  georgeou | 10/09/07
Keyboard was improved since Beta3  charbax@... | 10/09/07
You've missed a point again, George  critic-at-arms | 10/09/07
Your definition of "few" extends to 22 years ago?  georgeou | 10/09/07
India - The Big Lie!  ceh4702 | 10/09/07
You're half right  critic-at-arms | 10/09/07
Well, if learning skills kept the West from overpopulating...  HypnoToad72 | 10/09/07
Calling other nations a pile of garbage is just pathetic  georgeou | 10/09/07
Huh?  Pantalaimon | 10/09/07
I quoted his exact text  georgeou | 10/09/07
Note to George:  nizuse | 10/09/07
RE: OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize  Sayyad Ahmad Ali | 10/09/07
Confusion...  Information_z | 10/09/07
You are under the wrong impression  georgeou | 10/09/07
I don't recall but...  D. T. Schmitz | 10/09/07
Yes I have  georgeou | 10/09/07
Can you supply a link to your in-depth evaluation article?  D. T. Schmitz | 10/09/07
Sounds like another rhetorical question  georgeou | 10/09/07
Let it be noted then...  D. T. Schmitz | 10/09/07
Foot note is only needed if I claimed this was a hands-on review  georgeou | 10/09/07
kinda hypocritical of you George, eh? ...  n0neXn0ne | 10/09/07
You can write whatever you want...  D. T. Schmitz | 10/09/07
Gutmann made very specific and outrageous claims that were all proven wrong  georgeou | 10/09/07
Dietrich, you're taking a bit of a cheap shot here.  georgeou | 10/09/07
Not a cheap shot, but an expectation of a faithful reader  D. T. Schmitz | 10/10/07
My point is that the in-depth review is coming, but that doesn't mean I can  georgeou | 10/10/07
That's what my point is, you're say I can't write about the OLPC now  georgeou | 10/10/07
You can criticize this if you want.. but lets put this into perspective  Been_Done_Before | 10/09/07
Bad assumptions about the OLPC  georgeou | 10/09/07
While i would normally agree with you on all those points....  Been_Done_Before | 10/09/07
Just wrong  waltmaine | 10/09/07
Math, Language, Science, Social Studies is learned inside the classroom wit  georgeou | 10/09/07
RE: OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize  tombalablomba | 10/09/07
$60 Linksys router running modified Linux firmware and $20 antenna  georgeou | 10/09/07
And $300+ million for the power plant?  Robert Crocker | 10/09/07
And if you have no power for that router, what do you do?  georgeou | 10/09/07
You network locally  Robert Crocker | 10/10/07
Books don't have to be expensive  georgeou | 10/10/07
Books are big and heavy  Robert Crocker | 10/11/07
well put, Robert  warren@... | 10/09/07
Who are you going to mesh with if you don't have a router connected to powe  georgeou | 10/10/07
Tesla Coils  ~Obelix~ | 10/09/07
In the base case  tombalablomba | 10/10/07
On a Lighter Note - Or - We can't let George have the last word ...  babyboomer57 | 10/09/07
Have your cake and eat it too...  D. T. Schmitz | 10/09/07
There's a lot to criticize  tonymcs@... | 10/09/07
Really???  ~Obelix~ | 10/09/07
RE: OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize  ~Obelix~ | 10/09/07
It's not made to the same durability requirements  georgeou | 10/09/07
RE: It's not made to the same durability requirements  n0neXn0ne | 10/09/07
I HAVE had hands on with the XO  georgeou | 10/10/07
Feel good BS and discriminatory  ejpoleii | 10/09/07
RE: OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize  jjmacey@... | 10/09/07
It was a great idea until ...  n0neXn0ne | 10/09/07
That's not even the real reason to criticize  Omch'Ar | 10/09/07
liberation from tyranny...  james.faction | 10/10/07
Huh? Free markets is what fed the developed world all this time  georgeou | 10/10/07
price issue and factors  patibulo | 10/10/07
Why can't you imagine it?  georgeou | 10/10/07
You read Negroponte wrong.  mustangj36@... | 10/13/07
RE: OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize  BrianC | 10/13/07
XO Power Spec is the most important issue  BrianC | 10/13/07

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