Bill Gates apparently does n’t imagine much of MIT ’s $ 100 reckoner project , where the miserable - price units are being developed ( with some funding of Google ) for habit in developing countries . At the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in Washington yesterday , after Gates establish a Microsoft - endorse $ 1000 radical - nomadic personal computer ( UMPC ) , he promptly launched into disfavour of MIT s $ 100 computer projection , criticise the sizing of its tiny little sieve . That was noted as particularly ironic since the UMPC screen is just about the same size—7 inches . say Gates :
“ If you are going to go have the great unwashed share the computer , get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the exploiter , geez , get a decent computer where you may actually read the text and you ’re not sit there cranking the affair while you ’re endeavor to type .
Perhaps a few well - placed billion dollars might put Origami PCs into the hand of those disadvantaged people , Bill , rather than those ludicrously disgusting $ 100 deal - cranked units .
Bill Gates mock MIT ’s $ 100 laptop project[Reuters ]
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