"Why does the Indian Ministry of Human Ressources have to attack the non-profit OLPC organization?" So asks someone called 'Charbax' on the OLPC Blog. There could be many reasons, of course, but if it were me, I'd be pointing out that India had a perfectly good low-cost computing project going, called the Simputer, and OLPC came along acting like they had invented the concept (instead of, say, saying, "we'd like to help make Simputer better). Indeed, when we look at Asus and similar companies, it seems clear that the current revolution in inexpensive tablet computers has its origin in south and east Asia, not Cambridge or Cupertino.
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