Although to be fair they did inadvertently spur the growth of the netbook market that has since entirely overtaken them. This. I think the most positive light

Although to be fair they did inadvertently spur the growth of the netbook market that has since entirely overtaken them. This. I think the most positive light to put OLPC in is to compare it to the Xerox Alto: a machine that does some radically new things that spawn an industry, but fails to spearhead that industry itself. Also, the OLPC News' rebuttal sounds a little catty, but makes some good points. I still think it's a little bit of bad style to say "nuh uh, YOU'RE the stupid-head!"; let your argument against the original author's reasoning say that for you.