'$100 laptop' project, Microsoft team up

It's hard to write rationally about this when I'm so angry about this project. I encourage anyone who has the time to do some research on google for half an hour on this project. After you do, ask yourself this question, where is the tens of millions of dollars going? To be clear, I'm not suggesting corruption, what I'm suggesting is much much worse, good intentions. Here's some highlights of this project/charity:

• Touted as "$100 laptop" but actually sells for $199
  
• Sold 85,000 to U.S. and Canadian Citizens at $400 a laptop, the extra $200 dollars considered a charitable donation to the One Laptop per Child Project
  
• Only 435,000 confirmed orders by 3rd world countries to date
  
• At the UN conference in Tunisia, several African officials, most notably Marthe Dansokho of Cameroon and Mohammed Diop of Mali, voiced suspicions towards the motives of the OLPC project and claimed that the project was using an overly American mindset that presented solutions not applicable to specifically African problems. Dansokho said the project demonstrated misplaced priorities, stating that clean water and schools were more important for African women, who, he stated, would not have time to use the computers to research new crops to grow. Diop specifically attacked the project as an attempt to exploit the governments of poor nations by making them pay for hundreds of millions of machines.
  
• The project was announced in 2005 and only just now, after 3 years, is starting to deliver laptops, to date less than 100,000 have been delivered.
  
• 20 million dollars was donated by 10 major technology companies and 17 million was raised by the U.S. and Canadian (out of the $400 price to 1st world citizens, $200 is donation) making a total of 37 million raised by the organization. There have been many other donations that bring this total over $40 million dollars.
  
• "I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission. The mission was, in his mind, always getting as many laptops as possible out there; to say anything about learning would be presumptuous, and so he doesn't want OLPC to have a software team, a hardware team, or a deployment team going forward." -Ivan Krstic (former OLPC security developer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child