Controversy Swirls around OLPC Project
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| However, it now appears that Intel has realized that it's better policy (and
| better public relations) to work with projects like the OLPC rather than
| against them. In fact, on July 13 it was announced that Intel is joining the
| board of the OLPC and will be supporting its efforts to spread low-cost
| computing to children.
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| With this news, it seemed as if the OLPC had proved its intentions and could
| finally get on with deploying its XO laptops in developing countries.
| However, right about the same time, another titan of old-school computing
| decided to take a few shots at the OLPC and the low-cost XO.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2161645,00.asp
Related:
The Intel Betrayal (of Linux)
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| And lastly, I have a word for Intel. Tsk, Tsk!! Shame on you!
| You're more worried about your profits than your customers, or their
| system security or anything else for that matter. You're so paranoid
| about losing customers and market share that you'd rather risk a world
| wide digital catastrophe (or even a real one depending on where the
| chips are being used) than to admit your failings.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=264
Intel: Only "Open" for Business
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| These vendors often want a quiet private discussion, because in a
| quiet private discussion they can continue to dismiss the requests and in
| the end do absolutely nothing. They do not want a noisy public
| discussion, because then they look bad. But they DESERVE TO LOOK BAD,
| because they are being bad to those who bought their hardware!
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| [...]
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| By withholding, Intel is being an Open Source fraud.
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| [...]
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| So let's win back the rights to run the hardware we purchased.
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| Please feel free to let other open source communities know about this
| matter. Thank you.
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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded
Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"
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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733
One Laptop Per Child - Production Delays Caused By Microsoft, Intel?
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| I sincerely hope that no matter what the people who are running the
| OLPC project decide, that their project will continue and not get
| bogged down in a play of corporate greed and ambitions.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2007/04/28/one-laptop-per-child-production-delays-caused-by-microsoft-intel/
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