olpc.tv and today’s stuff

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olpc.tv is a site of videos of children using their OLPC. Here’s one of children in Uruguay.

And an article from the Indian IT magazine CIO, OLPC Heralds Era of Low-cost Computing. It will be interesting to watch how the OLPC gets taken up and discussed in countries it was intended for, vs in the Western media; similar issues, no doubt, but perhaps with a more practical and relevant spin.

Also, I liked this article, History of the World Part II where Miles Weston talks about the history of portable computing from his perspective up to the OLPC.

WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright

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Slashdot | WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright

The WTO’s recent ruling on Antigua’s complaint against the US over the banning of online gambling resulted in a payment to the island nation much less than they asked for. It appears, though, that this payment was just part of the WTO’s compensation package for Antigua/Barbuda. Via Kotaku, the Hollywood Reporter notes that the Caribbean country can now freely ignore US copyright laws - legally. This dispensation is apparently limited to some $21 million a year.

This is brilliant! I have no knowledge about the validity of the complaints or who is gooder or badder, but the WTO using copyright issues as a way to compensate a country is amazing, because how could you get a country to actually PAY a fine to another country? This works for me.