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____/ Linonut on Thursday 14 August 2008 14:55 : \____
> * nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> <Quote>
>> Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away
>> millions to educate the world?s poorest children. And then the fat-cat
>> multinationals got scared and broke it.....
>>
>> ?I had wildly underestimated,? says Negroponte, ?the degree to which
>> commercial entities will go to disrupt a humanitarian project.?
>> </Quote>
>>
>> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4472654.ece
>
> That revamped XO looks nice.
>
> They were stunned by the savagery of the competition they faced ...
>
> Gates's reaction was especially tasteless. Apart from being --
> like, apparently, everybody else rich, powerful or famous -- an
> old friend of Negroponte, he is the greatest philanthropist in the
> world. But even though he's stepped down as the head of
> Microsoft, he remains almost paranoiacally defensive of Windows.
"People everywhere love Windows."
--Bill Gates
He pays media companies to parrot such rubbish.
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