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The Register: Gates Mocks Negroponte’s $100 Laptop

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“Bill Gates has mocked the $100 Linux-based, wind-up powered PC
which is being pitched by MIT media lab co-founder Nicholas
Negroponte at developing markets.

“In a move unlikely to endear the world’s richest man to PC
users in either the developed or the developing nations. Gates
advised them to ‘get a decent computer’ that offered a decent
screen, a broadband connection and isn’t powered by a wind-up
handle…”

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