Okay, true. I did think getting governments (or even the World Bank through some crafty loan/grant scheme) to pony up the money for the machines was always going to be a long shot.

Ultimately OLPC will have to market an "adult" version of the machine to sell far and wide. I think the manufacturer had designs on doing that anyway. Personally, I hope it comes to that. The kid-only idea was great to start because it captured people's imaginations and brought in the initial funding. I think without the hype of $100 pretty laptop for poor kids, they wouldn't have made it this far. But given they have created such a great product, it seems silly not to sell to whoever will buy it and use that revenue to pay for their main mission. Hopefully, that would dampen some of the black market demand.

You mention cell phones. A next step or maybe a parallel step could be getting their Sugar operating system on some common cells phone or PDAs. Google Phone, anyone?