Comments on: $100 Laptop: Bill Gates Doesn’t Get it

By: adam mpunga

adam mpunga — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:30:54 +0000

Please sir i’m a university student here at makumira university, i don’t have a laptop which is very important for my study so i need your support to give me a laptop, even if it is the oldest one it will help me because i’m doing my asignment so bad, so please help me

adam

By: collins

collins — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:59:44 +0000

can i also please have one of this laptops to assist me in my studies at the university ?i need it badly_for assignments,research and many more…you can even guess how it is for a university student without a desk top or a laptop.please,help me out.thanks in advance.

By: kaleab

kaleab — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:29:48 +0000

i need to be benefited by this( $100 laptops ) mail me quick!!!

By: Nwiga

Nwiga — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:21:57 +0000

There is some interesting analysis over at Ethans about this post that seems to make weird but twisted sense.

By: Geekette

Geekette — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:05:29 +0000

Ah, Mr Gates is only illustrating that #1 affliction that affects most of the rich & famous; the inability to put their money where their mouth is. If he’s sooo offended by the seemingly archaic computers, then why doesn’t he drop the money or hardware required for faster/more efficient ones instead of PMSing about a project that had the guts to not include him? Sheesh!

By: …My heart’s in Accra » Quick notes from the Continent

…My heart’s in Accra » Quick notes from the Continent — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:55:32 +0000

[…] – White African was as troubled as I by Bill Gates’s dismissive comments about the One Laptop Per Child initiative. He points out that Microsoft is now promoting an ultra-light device and may see the little green laptop as a competitor. I actually think the explanation is simpler – Gates has long been dismissive of technology transfer to the developing world. When I used to work on Geekcorps, reporters would inevitably bring up Gates’s quote that people living on a dollar a day didn’t need computers. At least he’s consistent – the Gates Foundation has done excellent work on vaccines in Africa, but hasn’t focused on technology transfer to the continent. […]

By: JKE

JKE — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:15:44 +0000

Saw the coverage of this story on Germany’s Der Spiegel …I guess he’s just jealous that he’s been left out so far.
My 2cents on this is that Gates should donate some server pcs which could provide content like Encylopedias on a local basis (given that the laptops are connected via wlan & could have access to a server with some sort of knowledge database..). Or let him just donate the hardware and users will take over the content part (having a wiki run on that server).