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	RogerS	2006-03-16 , 23:32
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I'm not sure I follow Gates' logic. He said:

If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type.

But isn't the point of having the crank that millions of the users of this computer won't even have consistent access to electricity?

How in tarnation are they supposed to have access to broadband in that case?

And while I think Remote User has many useful insights, I think the point of the OLPC computer isn't to revolutionize how people compute, but at the most basic level for many people in the world just to make it possible to compute at all.

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