From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4494AD35.9000802@lanl.gov> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:32:37 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) 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> <44943EB9.9070206@village.com> In-Reply-To: <44943EB9.9070206@village.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6c4ec956-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Wes Kussmaul wrote: > Well that's the thing. The committed volume for that DVD player is > surely huge. But the economies that are a byproduct of the huge DVD > player volume are now available to others with only semi-huge commitments. > one other issue. We are assuming that money is made on that DVD player. Do we know that for sure? ron