This is brilliant! The $100 laptop to be offered to the public! With an awesome catch.

Oh Frubjous Day! Calloo! Callay! This is the happiest you might ever see me.
The incredibly cool One Laptop Per Child program is not only up and running, but they've decided to sell the super-cool $100 laptops to the general public, expanding beyond the government-contract only availability that they planned. But here's the super sweet, amazingly awesome catch:
"Customers will have to buy two laptops at once - with the second going to the developing world." LINK

I can't even say how thrilling this initiative is. Read up on it- it's the kind of thing that gives one hope in a hopeless world.
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