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by Sukotto 5506 days ago

  What we want to do is develop a commercial market. Sell it
  to people up here for whatever they want to do with it. So 
  we can get the quantity up so we can get the cost down so 
  we can serve the humanitarian missions market which is our 
  primary market.
I wish the One Laptop Per Child people had taken this route instead of the "for a limited time each year, we'll force you to buy TWO of these (and donate one of them) for each ONE that you want" approach that they chose to do.

The end result was noble in that you were contributing to charity. But the way they did it made me feel like they were gouging people.