On Apr 29, 6:31 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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-chil...
>
> Mind you, this comes from an MS MVP who tried Linux and was impressed by it.
>
> Microsoft and Intel just want to 'knife the baby', but it's just a rumour.
> Microsoft's well-known shills have already taken stabs at the project. Now,
> that's a /fact/.
>
> Related:
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> | That software effort does not have the support of Mr. Otellini, who
> | is concerned about incurring Microsoft's wrath, the executive said.
> | The two companies have a long history of tension over who controls
> | the hardware and software direction of the "Wintel standard." Intel
> | has said it is supporting both operating systems.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/technology/16chip.html?ex=117756000...
>
> At Davos: citizenship, apostasy and $100 laptops
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> | Nicholas Negroponte, longtime director of MIT's Media Lab, was toting
> | around a working version of his so-called "$100 laptop" (which will
> | initially cost about $150). Everyone from Michael Dell to Google's
> | Vint Cerf was seen playing with it. The little green-and-white computer
> | is so sexy that many pronounced it "cooler than the iPhone."
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The featured speaker at the digital divide session was Intel
> | Chairman Craig Barrett, who has been outspokenly critical of
> | Negroponte's laptop, in part because it is based on a processor
> | chip from arch-rival AMD. Intel at Davos was trying to
> | strike back by showing its own green-and-white "Classmate PC,"
> | which is considerably more expensive and whose clunkiness prompted
> | no iPhone comparisons.
> |
> | Barrett and Negroponte traded barbs in which each accused the other
> | of caring more about marketing than children. Then AMD President
> | Andre Richard made a proposal - despite their rivalry on other
> | matters, the two chipmakers should cooperate on special software
> | for inexpensive educational computers.
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> http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/01/technology/fastforward_davos.fortune/...
>
> Debate widens over over deploying computers in the developing world
>
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> | The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
> | Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
> | the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
> | nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is focusing
> | on the 1.2 billion children in the developing world.
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> http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/28/business/cheap.php
>
> Google did not boot AMD for Intel
>
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> | Google's displeasure with Intel's blog gossip making its way to the
> | press is evident in the company's terse statement. Such PR rumblings
> | between the two companies are sure to make things uncomfortable next
> | time Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows up for a Google board meeting.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/28/google_amd_xeon/
>
> 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!
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | By withholding, Intel is being an Open Source fraud.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | So let's win back the rights to run the hardware we purchased.
> |
> | 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
Let's not forget that Intel is one of the main stockholders of RedHat,
gentlemen.
-Ramon
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