From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44943EB9.9070206@village.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:41:13 -0400 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A look at the OLPC environment References: <20655.1150489121@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> <44931646.8080506@village.com> <44933B43.6050606@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <44933B43.6050606@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6c2f3500-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Wes Kussmaul wrote: > >> Nowhere near the quality of OLPC of course but if you put in a big=20 >> enough order with a manufacturer of DVD players for a machine=20 >> replacing the DVD drive with a keyboard, add ethernet and a couple of=20 >> gigs of flash and you could sell OLPWC (Western Cheapo) for under a=20 >> hundred dollars and make money on it. > > > I'm not convinced it's that easy. I've seen the components prices and=20 > it sure looks hard to me to lower the price much. What's the target=20 > volume of that dvd player? Well that's the thing. The committed volume for that DVD player is=20 surely huge. But the economies that are a byproduct of the huge DVD=20 player volume are now available to others with only semi-huge commitments= . --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people co= llectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the = same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a = bit obscure.=20 P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)