“Chipzilla is doing everything it can to undercut MIT’s One
Laptop Per Child project not, sadly, in the name of helping
disadvantaged kids in Africa and elsewhere, but instead to pander
to the God of the Bottom Line. But it’s not the only game in town
and another cheap system is quietly trundling along in the
background.“For a while, AMD was offering a $185 Personal Internet
Communicator (PIC) designed to, ‘bring Internet access to 50
percent of the world’s population by 2015…'”
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