OLPC Is Apparently Trying to Fail Harder
$75? Are you fucking stupid? Your original, totally unthought out plan of $100 didn’t work, at all, resulting in a price doubling and zero distribution. Now you’re adding a touchscreen and think you can sell it for $75. Maybe with a lot of grant money, and I mean a lot. Frankly, you aren’t worth it.
The Sugar UI is a joke. Rather than reinvent the wheel using bricks, why not use one of the MANY lightweight UIs already available for linux? But no, you go to gobble MicroSoft’s limp member.
It’s a good cause and all, but it just isn’t something you can realistically do right now, at least that’s the impression I get. Want to really get schoolkids across the world on computers? Maybe think about building computer labs, and getting teachers. Desktops are dirt cheap, and if you run them as thin clients they can be even cheaper. Not $75, for sure, but it also won’t be some backwater interface trading in usability for some bullshit indy cred.