[OLPC-SF] India has ordered 250,000 laptops from the OLPC

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

That so called research was for university student computer use at  
some African universities.  ( Far from the OLPC target market. )   
Sounds like it had a bias to teaching MS office products.  They did  
not even try an alternative boot on SD card with Ubuntu and Open  
Office for example.  I do not have the link to the research at hand  
at the moment.

On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Grant Bowman wrote:

> A goal of 3 million laptops for India?  Wild.
>
> What research are they talking about in the article that ranks the  
> asus eee higher than the xo?
>
> Grant
>
> On Apr 25, 2009 5:05 PM, "Sameer Verma" <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:30 PM, rihoward1 at gmail.com  
> <rihoward1 at gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.pc...
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> It is election season in India! They'll promise you anything :-)
>
> If this is indeed true, then hats off to Satish and we (volunteers)
> need to gear up for Indic translations :-)
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
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