What we're missing now is the complimentary push for a big, ambitious vision (that is simultaneously quite practical) that will catch people's attention and make them think of free software as something other than a low-rent alternative. OLPC's the best chance we're going to get for that. It is our big splash. And I think it is the right thing, pedagogically and technologically.
--Tom
Being that this initiative is being developed in the US, I sure wish we weren't put on the back burner. We sure could use the OLPC program in our school, but from what I read that won't be a possibility for a few years.