Friends,can anyone give me some inputs for getting few OLPC ordered?<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Satish Jha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satish@laptop.org">satish@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I am not sure if campaigns have changed purchasing policies in India. Will be glad to know about some examples.</div>
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<div>That said, "Sugar on a Stick" is good idea and sounds fun as a name as well, amost like a lollypop..</div>
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<div>One key aspect of open source or not for profit initiatives is that they do not recognise the value of sales and marketing. But consider this. When a buyer has multiple choices, multiple vendors making a case by every possible means about the superiority and value of their product, the campaigns become more of a noise and reverberate among those interested in them until they gain a critical mass and momentum to override the market logic.</div>
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<div>Then again, campaigns making technology choices have a huge question mark hanging over them.. A bit like Taliban imposing values on the rest of the society... Choices need to be made through a process that allow various competing questions to be addressed and resolved through an agreeable set of criteria..<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><br>On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Bhargav Prasanna<br><<a href="mailto:bhargavprasanna@gmail.com" target="_blank">bhargavprasanna@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> We already had an extensive discussion about the BJP thingy on our LUG list.<br>
> Its really sad that such a big party should say one thing whilst doing<br>> something completely in contrast (I know. Most parties do that today.)<br>><br>> Frankly, you cannot believe them. While they talk about FOSS, they use<br>
> flash in their websites.<br>> A Firefox Tools-> Page Info -> Media tab for<br>> hypertext<colon><slash><slash>www<dot>lkadvani<dot>in yields enough<br>> information.<br>> -- <br>
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