Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> OLPC blog draws fire for failure to disclose
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The OLPC News website in the past months has build up a reputation for
>| sharply criticizing the $100 laptop project headed up by Nicholas Negroponte.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| So it doesn't take too much of a conspiracy theorist to believe that Intel is
>| secretly bankrolling the OLPC-News website.
>|
>| Adding insult to injury, OLPC-News is buying advertising on Google to attract
>| visitors to its website.
> `----
>
> http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2007/01/olpc_blog_draws.html
>
> Just like Microsoft. This is criminal. Intel and Microsoft would make a nice
> pair in a prison cell (if only they were not above the law).
One could begin to believe that maybe it's just a person site, until you
realise that the guy who writes "OPLC News" actually works for Intel on
the competing Classmate PC, and he's *bought* advertising at Google for
his "personal blog" which just happens to have taken the name of a
project which competes with his day job.
What an appalling state of affairs.
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