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DawnFalcon · 02-12-2010, 11:05 PM

No, we can say for sure that a substantial portion of that 1.25 million WOULD have happened anyway. For one thing, it's not 1.25 million to the third world, it's 1.25 million total, over 175,000 were G1G1 and thus 1.075 million is more accurate from that alone. Moreover, many of the OLPC contracts were done on a competitive tender basis, i.e. If the OLPC had not been selected, another laptop would of been.

And no, I didn't ask your occupation, I asked you to disclose your entirely relevant financial links. For someone supposedly fixated on accuracy, you are simply not answering the question. Inquisition? No, simply disagreeing with your (party) company line.

There have been some successes generated by people who have left the OLPC project, such as Sugar, but it's notable that they left to do their work, because the OLPC abandoned the educational goals and focused on their weakest area, their hardware.

(And that's ignoring the very real privacy issues with Bitfrost)

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DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	No, we can say for sure that a substantial portion of that 1.25 million WOULD have happened anyway. For one thing, it's not 1.25 million to the third world, it's 1.25 million total, over 175,000 were G1G1 and thus 1.075 million is more accurate from that alone. Moreover, many of the OLPC contracts were done on a competitive tender basis, i.e. If the OLPC had not been selected, another laptop would of been. And no, I didn't ask your occupation, I asked you to disclose your entirely relevant financial links. For someone supposedly fixated on accuracy, you are simply not answering the question. Inquisition? No, simply disagreeing with your (party) company line. There have been some successes generated by people who have left the OLPC project, such as Sugar, but it's notable that they left to do their work, because the OLPC abandoned the educational goals and focused on their weakest area, their hardware. (And that's ignoring the very real privacy issues with Bitfrost) Last edited by DawnFalcon; 02-12-2010 at 11:09 PM.