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[News] [Rival] Intel's CEO Does Damage Control After Assaulting a Charity, Spreads FUD

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Intel's CEO Does Damage Control After Assaulting a Charity, Spreads FUD
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:43:05 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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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]
|
| 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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