$100 PC Pledges Fail To Meet Minimum

bobthemuse writes, "Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop PC was demonstrated back in May, and a PledgeBank was set up: the goal was to get 100,000 people to purchase an OLPC for $300, allowing the project to send two of the devices to the proposed users. Today the pledge ended and only 3,678 people had signed up." It looks like a mention in Slashback a few weeks ago gave a boost to the effort, but not a big enough one.

What they should do to make it sell like hot cakes

[Anonymous Coward]

At least to your average /.'er.

- First, you announce that the laptop will run with a closed source proprietary OS. The exact one isn't important, though something from Microsoft would be a big help.

- Second, you also announce that it will run a small limited subset of apps.

- Third, you produce the laptops and let them loose in the wild.

- Fourth, it's "discovered" that the laptop can be hacked to run Linux.

- Fifth, sit back and watch those /. orders at $300 a pop come flooding in!