Posted this one yesterday. Groklaw comments:
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| "The Eee PC's success wasn't possible without Intel's support. The chip maker
| was initially hesitant to embrace Asustek's push into low-cost laptops for
| fear it would drive down margins for its mobile processors if users opted to
| buy low-cost laptops instead of more powerful -- and more expensive --
| models. But Intel eventually decided that the opportunity to expand the size
| of the overall laptop market outweighed the risks of lower profit margins,
| and gave its backing to the little laptops."
|
| [PJ: I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. All you folks who flamed
| me for saying Intel was involved with Asus can now send me emails of apology.
| Chocolate would be nice too. It would show sincerity, don't you think?]
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http://www.tamilstar.com/news/publish/article_7340.shtml
http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
Inexpensive PCs Appeal to Housewives, Children
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| The target users are housewives, children and other people who tend to avoid
| PCs if they are too difficult to use. Outside Japan we use the Linux OS,
| which is cheaper than Windows.
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http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20080327/149604/
Watch this:
The Asus Eee PC (Part Three): The Alternative Distros
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| Here is a list to date of the ones that have been designed to work with it to
| a lesser or greater degree:
|
| * DebianEeePC (installs Debian Lenny)
| * eeeXubuntu
| * EeePcLinuxOS Eeedora (a customised version of Fedora)
| * Arch
| * Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon)
| * Gentoo
| * OpenSuse
| * Backtrack3
| * gOS
| * pupEEE
| * Linpus
| * Mandriva 2008 Spring (scheduled for 9 April, official release)
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/asus_eee_pc_part_three_alternative_distros
Related:
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
|
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
|
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
|
| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
|
| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
|
| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
Bill Gates: Cheap PCs won't help the poor
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| Asked if he could start over and develop an operating system from scratch,
| what would he do?
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| Nothing.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Bill-Gates-Cheap-PCs-won-t-help-the-poor/0,339028227,339286422,00.htm
Poor Kids' Laptop Cranks Up
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates earlier this year told the Microsoft
| Government Leaders Forum, "Geez, get a decent computer where you can
| actually read the text and you?re not sitting there cranking the thing
| while you're trying to type" (see Bill Gates Mocks $100 Laptop).
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http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=17302
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/
Lessons from Africa: How to Kill Your Own FUD
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| So, even as Microsoft claims superior quality over Linux, they act as if they
| don't even buy their own FUD. If they really believed that Windows was
| superior to Linux, they wouldn't have to bribe people with “marketing help”
| to get them to choose Windows.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-09-030-26-OP-MD-MS
[Mandriva CEO:] An open letter to Steve Ballmer
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| Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their
| mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone.
| How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my
| place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.
|
| Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
|
| Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one.
| You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics
| you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win
| too.
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http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
Not Such a Harsh Toke, Actually
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| This is socially, economically, politically and otherwise innovative. It is
| good for democracy too in some of the few remaining places that good thing is
| having trouble getting hold. We regard that thing too lightly, I fear.
|
| The Gates | Otellini axis directly hurts us deeply. To me, it is a
| particularly American shame.
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/11/not-such-a-hars.html
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