<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">GE is being congratulated for recognizing that the iPhone and iPad are pretty good ideas and technological realizations. But isn't this like the congratulations Bill Gates got for finally recognizing the Internet (about 25 years after it had started working)? Seems as though Apple had a lot more on the ball than Bill Gates or GE here (they used to do computing in the 60s, but couldn't see what it was). And most of the ideas at Apple (and for personal computing and the Internet) came from research funding that no company or government has been willing to do since 1982. Cheers, Alan <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><hr size="1">From: Carlos Rabassa <carnen@mac.com> To: america-latina@squeakland.org; squeakland.org mailing list <squeakland@squeakland.org>; Maho 2010 <maho@realness.org>; IAEP SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>; voluntarios y administradores OLPC para usuarios docentes <olpc-sur@lists.laptop.org>; olpc bolivia <olpc-bolivia@lists.laptop.org>; OLPC Puno <olpcpuno@gmail.com> Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 4:11:49 AM Subject: [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric We try to learn from those who have succeed for a long time: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XWm2q8nQ-l5KUJ_PWkQruLDx-nZ7nsKDfg4idDlsU50" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XWm2q8nQ-l5KUJ_PWkQruLDx-nZ7nsKDfg4idDlsU50</a> Carlos Rabassa _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </div></div> </div> </body></html>