1 The first one I agree is a huge problem. Their machines are not inherently better then commercial machines that can produced. They may be designed with a par

1 The first one I agree is a huge problem. Their machines are not inherently better then commercial machines that can produced. They may be designed with a particular purpose in mind, but they are vision driven, not market driven. There is an ideological notion here about what sort of machine should be available that just shouldn't be there. 2 & 3 I think they were trying to address these with the software & the personal laptop issue. Sticking a few machines in a school means they support whatever the school was doing before, innovation will probably not happen this way. They probably don't have that much of an advantage there. The way I see it, they're not that far off base but they still may be completely irrelevant. Computer literacy is important in that later on, at 15 or 18 or 25 those kids will be able to decide "I want to learn to program" or "I need to know accounting" or "I want to know if what this politician is saying is BS" or "I want to start an internet business" & go do it. You need to be comfortable enough with the machine to know where to start. I know that if I want to know about bookkeeping or the French Revolution or growing sweet potatoes in slightly acidic sandy soil, I can do it online. It's about making it cheaper & easier for people everyone to know this too.