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Bill Gates mocks MIT’s $100 laptop project

What a low blow just to get some face time to demonstrate his overpriced origami project. Nobody at the MIT Media Lab ever claimed the $100 laptop was going to be a consumer device anyway. It’s a project designed to bring computing to the masses, namely children without the means to drop a cool grand on an overstuffed Windows machine.

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