<div>Walter,</div>
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<div>Thanks so much. Greatly appreciate your thoughtful support.</div>
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<div>Satish Jha<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/9/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Walter Bender</b> <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> If you happen to have done your homework correctly you would notice,<br>> there has been plenty of debate on it in the past. Forget an<br>
> organization, no country has<br>> "ordered and received" as many XOs, not even close to it. A few<br>> countries pulled out of the OLPC pilots and moved to Intel Classmates or<br>> other low-cost laptops for the very same purpose. Since the rather now<br>
> infamous statement from one gentleman about the OLPC initiative being<br>> that.. "it's an educational project and not a laptop project" doesn't<br>> seem to hold good anymore.<br><br>I don't speak for OLPC any more and have not been in the loop<br>
regarding their plans for Inida, but for what it is worth, you have<br>several factual errors in the above paragraph.<br><br>Both Peru and Uruguay have ordered in excess of 100000 laptop and as I<br>understand, Uruguay has not just received, but has already deployed<br>
more than that number.<br><br>I have heard of no country that has pulled out of an OLPC trial in<br>order to order large quantities of Intel Classmate PCs. There is one<br>alleged large order for Classmate PCs on the books, but those machines<br>
have not been delivered AFAIK and the country to which those machines<br>are to be delivered never had an OLPC pilot.<br><br>That said, let's all work together to make this an "education<br>project". We at Sugar Labs have been working hard to make sure that<br>
children can have access to a great learning experience regardless of<br>what hardware they receive. While there is a growing Sugar community<br>in India, we need more developers, support engineers, translators,<br>activity developers, and most important of all, out reach to<br>
educators. Recall that Sugar is based on the principles of free and<br>open-source software--it is deliberately designed for local<br>appropriation!! Seize the opportunity for the children of India and<br>the world.<br><br>
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