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In March 2003, Rich Kaarlgaard wrote a great article in Forbes detailing how the coming decade was all about massive reductions in costs and prices, driven by technology. We had grown accustomed to Moore's Law driving down PC costs. Kaarlgaard pointed out that this was happening across the spectrum of the economy. He was right, but many of the effects were hidden by the credit bubble. When money is so cheap, costs rise. Now we are in for an even cheaper decade, and today's headlines are showing the way.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation, the group working to create computers that can be sold for $100 and given to children in developing countries, has partnered with popular French video company Daily Motion to advance the Open Source video format Ogg, an alternative to Adobe's Flash.

The OLPC computers don't support Flash, they are Open Source throughout and avoid proprietary software. Daily Motion publishes its video in Flash but will now make video available in Ogg format for OLPC users.