Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas Part 1 [of 2]
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| We caught up with OLPC's Chief Connectivity Officer, Michail Bletsas, to
| speak about these issues and the future of One Laptop Per Child.
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http://www.gearlog.com/2008/01/interview_olpcs_michail_bletsa.php
Interview with Thomas Hansen, organiser of the Gaia Programming Contest
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| I had the chance to interview Thomas Hansen, who recently announced the Gaia
| Programming Contest (€10,000 reward). Here are his enlightening answers!
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/interview_with_thomas_hansen_organiser_of_the_gaia_programming_contest
A conversation with the autopackage team
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| Hopefully, these ideas will help the Linux platform to surge forward, even if
| autopackage does not win as wide an acceptance as we hope it will.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/124325
Related:
Intel-powered XO is too expensive and consumes too much power
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| 2 days before Intel CEO Paul Otellini would unveil the Classmate 2 or the
| Intel-powered XO at the CES, Intel announced that they are quitting the OLPC
| board.
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| Intel claims that they are quitting because of Nicholas Negroponte wanting
| them to stop the promotion of the Classmate/Eee to education in third world
| countries, but I think that the real reason is that Intel does not have a
| good enough processor for the OLPC project to use as an alternative to the
| AMD Geode LX-700. Intel has not been able to develop a processor to match the
| price, power consumption and performance requirements of the OLPC project.
| Paul Otellini could have looked like a fool at the CES if he had to unveil an
| Intel powered XO that was performing worse in terms of price and power
| consumption compared to the AMD powered one.
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http://charbax.com/2008/01/04/intel-diamondville-and-menlow-processors-not-low-costpower-enough/
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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