(Q.) We understand that Bill Gates and some others in this business have criticized this initiative as untenable. What is your response to this?

(A.) I don’t respond to such criticism. Because criticising this project is like criticising the church, or the Red Cross.

Is he saying that criticising OLPC is as easy as criticising the church? Does he mean that those who criticise OLPC are heretics? Or could he be suggesting that OLPC be allowed to do what it does without listening to anyone else? If it is the latter, this is disturbing; criticism, and the ability to respond to it, are tenets at the very heart of learning. To ignore what others have to say about your work appears to contradict the very learning skills OLPC advocate in their mission to help a billion of the world's children.

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