Talk:OLPC Rwanda

basket case

I changed "thought of as a basket case" to "thought of as an economic challenge".

I have no idea why someone would post offensive material about a nation you are trying to help.... it reeks like sabotage to me. I suspect Intel is sabotaging the Wiki.

I'm totally serious, the amount of mis-information being spread about this wonderful non-profit humanitarian project amazes me. Especially those guys at www.olpcnews.com They are obviously paid by Intel to promote Fear Uncertainty & doubt about the OLPC project.

They claim to be an "independent" look at the OLPC project.

... but honestly, a professionally designed website, with huge bandwidth, tons of high-quality Tabloid-style articles bashing everything and anything remotely connected to OLPC.

Why is someone out there spending tons of his hard earned money & hours per day bashing a site he has no connection to?? doesnt seem right to me...

Rudeness and insensitivity does not equal sabotage. Honestly, the original was more factual. Equivalents might be "train wreak" and "lost cause". I suppose that "challenge" is on it's way to aquiring the same sort of rude and nasty connotation because it keeps getting used for places like Rwanda. Maybe next you'll switch to "differently affluent"? I offer "economic disaster" and "dysfunctional economy" as no-nonsense factual expressions of the situation.

As for olpcnews... like any Tabloid, they do ANYTHING required to stir up interest. Say, does the site have advertizers? (I'm not going there to check) Ad revenue would explain a lot, no conspiracy required.