prostoalex's Journal: Libya to supply every kid with MIT's $100 laptop

Libya will buy MIT's $100 laptops to supply every kid in the country with a brand new portable PC. Libya ordered 1.2 mln laptops, and somehow the deal adds up to $250 mln, MSNBC reports. From the article: "Negroponte, a computer researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he had met with Moammar Gadhafi and the project appealed to the Libyan leader's political agenda of creating a more open Libya and becoming an African leader."