Paul Otellini tells Intel staff about the OLPC affair
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| He calls on the 88,000 people that work at La Intella to get some clarity
| about OLPC.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/15/paul-otellini-tells-intel
Paul Otellini is apparently quite a scummy man who deletes evidence of his
business crimes (see below).
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| Pixel Qi Out to Bring Principles of Inexpensive Laptop Design to Consumer
| Market: Former One Laptop CTO Mary Lou Jepsen On Her New Startup
|
| MLJ: ...The issue was on the sales side, and the disparagement we were still
| getting from Intel. Peru was one really extreme example. Oscar Becerra
| Tresierra, the vice minister of education, said to me that Intel was coming
| to him almost every day and saying, “Look, we are on the OLPC’s board, and we
| know that the laptop will never work.”
|
| Q: Weren’t you working with Intel to put a low-power Intel chip into the XO?
|
| MLJ: Yes. It’s very simple; Intel people want to sell Intel chips. I felt
| that the best way to work with them was to get some Intel silicon into the
| XO, which we were doing. The laptop we were making with them would have been
| more expensive and more power-hungry, and it would have taken at least six
| months longer to produce. But that was not the real reason [for the split].
| The cost difference would have been less than 20 percent, and the power
| difference would have been maybe a watt or two, and we might have been able
| to pull a rabbit out of the hat and ship for mass production by the summer….
| [The problem was] on the sales and marketing side. I know how Intel is. I
| worked there. They are a very aggressive company and a very successful
| company. People describe them affectionately as the 800-pound gorilla of
| semiconductors, and that is what they are.
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http://www.xconomy.com/2008/01/15/pixel-qi-out-to-bring-principles-of-inexpensive-laptop-design-to-consumer-market-former-one-laptop-cto-mary-lou-jepsen-on-her-new-startup/
http://tinyurl.com/38wpbk
How long before Intel employees ignore Paul Otellini's E-mail, think for
themselves, and realise that they became part of an abusive company that harms
society?
Related:
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| That [Linux] 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=1177560000&en=2ef52cee6b1fb0e3&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS
Intel's anti-trust memos started vanishing from the top
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| Chairman Craig Barrett, CEO Paul Otellini and sales chief Sean Maloney
| have appeared on a list of Intel employees thought to have deleted
| e-mails possibly relevant to AMD's anti-trust lawsuit against its
| larger rival. The missing e-mails have thrust a livid state of mind
| onto AMD's lawyers who have very serious problems with Intel's
| rather lax document retention policy.
|
| [...]
|
| CEO Otellini appears to have been one of these troublesome employees.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/11/intel_tortellini_episode/
AMD: Intel Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case
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| In an unpublished statement to the U.S. District Court of Delaware,
| AMD alleges Intel allowed the destruction of evidence in pending
| antitrust litigation.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6352
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
Africa's digital poster child [Intel's illegal dumping]
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| [Classmates in Nigeria]
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| The renovation has been paid for by the government and Intel, with the chip
| firm covering the majority of the costs of the technology.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7115218.stm
Intel CEO mum on Vista's impact
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| Before the question could even be finished, Otellini shook his head and
| said, "no," he was not getting into any discussion about Vista.
|
| We considered that not just odd, given Otellini's history of taking on all
| questions, but a sign that Intel is seriously displeased with Vista. If that
| weren't true, why couldn't the CEO muster even a lukewarm response like, "We
| certainly think Vista a superior OS, but after five years in development we
| would have hoped it had more of an impact on creating a demand for PC
| upgrades."
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9846349-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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