Hardware hacker reviews the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop
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| Virtuoso hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang has posted a fantastic review
| of the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, from a hardware engineer's
| perspective.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/06/hardware-hacker-revi.html
Quote for the day:
"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it's simply seeking to
compel Microsoft to obey the law. It's quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates
the two."
--Government official
Related:
Hands-on with the OLPC XO laptop -- and loving it
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| If you're considering plunking down the $400.00 to Get 1 and Give 1, the best
| advice I can offer you is simply to paraphrase President Kennedy: ask not
| what the OLPC can do for you, ask what you can do for the OLPC. The promotion
| has already been extended once, and it ends December 31, 2007.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/123730
My Very Own OLPC XO Laptop
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| I noticed in the article that OLPC News is used to attack OLPC. So I went to
| Google and while they pretend to be linked in some way in Google's ads, they
| are not, which is likely why they had to change their name. They should
| change it again. It's misleading. They are an anti-OLPC site, in my eyes,
| since they always manage to say something negative. So don't be fooled.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071223132431291
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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
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| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
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| 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
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