previous poster wrote:-
> If you delve deep into this group you would discover that money
> never played much of a role in the Simputer. None came forward to take
> it up as a shining example of Indian achievement. The Simputer was to
> the nascent Indian IT hardware business something like the TATA's
> 'Nano' is supposed to be for the Indian automotive industry. But
> unfortunately the Simputer did not have a TATA behind it. Neither was
> the Govt. of India behind it. As some of the people in this group had
> held out for. That put paid to the numbers and profit angle of it.
>
How can you expect the simputer [project] to succeed, when
the mailing list is a failure. The mailing list is 'your' first
appearance to the global technically competent community.

Competent mail-lists don't use sequencial top posting, like
the girly who bought her box last week at Wallmart and
just goes the default WinTel way.

The mail-list should reflect the 'spirit' of simputer:

1. use linux style - not M$loth top posting;

2. use minimal resource style - post plain text only, with
no mime or html-format crap.
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IMO simputer should [have] emphasised to aspects:

1. Low power and operability with no mains access.
How many of YOU ever operated from a remote village ?

2. The CF makes the one-simputer-per-'community' potentialy
very cost effective. It's not made for yuppy-hackers, but
you must get their support, eg. by first having a competent
mail-list.


== Chris Glur.