Gates talks (bad) about OLPC

I've talked before about the $100 laptop Nicholas Negroponte is trying to get off the ground at the MIT Media Lab. Apparently, Bill Gates heard about it too, and isn't enamored of the idea:

If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type

Wow. If that's not a case of ivory-tower syndrome, I'm not sure what is. Gates is completely missing the point. These people don't need computers that give the most satisfying experience. It's not about the computer. It's about the information, it's about having the world opened to them as inexpensively (the computers will be free for the kids) as possible.

Apparently, Gates sees the OLPC project as a threat to the Origami initiative. Someone should really explain to him that the OLPC will never end up in the hands of someone who could ever afford to buy a computer.