Negroponte Seeks a Laptop CEO
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| After weathering an acrimonious split from Intel and harsh criticism from
| critics, One Laptop Per Child is reorganizing—and looking for a new CEO
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc2008035_429837.htm
Microsoft is mentioned. Still trying to get children 'addicted' (Gates' own
words).
Proposal: Fedora@Home
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| This would be fantastic for Fedora as it would allow us to lead the open
| source movement into the area of open services and community computing
| based on open source. It would also be a great marketing showcase for
| Fedora by showing our leadership in grid technology and in the power of
| our community. And, it would provide Fedora users a feel-good way to
| contribute to Fedora--even if they don't code--by contributing CPU
| cycles towards things like builds or automated testing. Finally, for
| full disclosure: as the product manager for MRG, I would also love to be
| able to point to a Fedora@Home project as a showcase of the technologies
| in MRG at work in a massive, public grid.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/271792/
Recent:
Free laptops a hit with children
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| The laptops, which are sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| (MIT), cost US$176 (about 5,600 baht) each.
|
| The school is one of two in the central province chosen for the pilot
| programme.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/03Mar2008_news10.php
Steve Wozniak: Cheap PCs can help the poor
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| Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has revealed he's a big fan of Nicholas
| Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project but confessed that his own
| plans to switch entirely to the device have gone awry.
|
| [...]
|
| Wozniak added that he believed OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte deserved
| international recognition for his work.
|
| "I think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize," he said.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Steve-Wozniak-Cheap-PCs-can-help-the-poor/0,339028227,339286443,00.htm
Bill Gates: Cheap PCs won't help the poor
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| Asked if he could start over and develop an operating system from scratch,
| what would he do?
|
| Nothing.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Bill-Gates-Cheap-PCs-won-t-help-the-poor/0,339028227,339286422,00.htm
Related:
Poor Kids' Laptop Cranks Up
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates earlier this year told the Microsoft
| Government Leaders Forum, "Geez, get a decent computer where you can
| actually read the text and you?re not sitting there cranking the thing
| while you're trying to type" (see Bill Gates Mocks $100 Laptop).
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http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=17302
One Laptop Per Child - Production Delays Caused By Microsoft, Intel?
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| I sincerely hope that no matter what the people who are running the
| OLPC project decide, that their project will continue and not get
| bogged down in a play of corporate greed and ambitions.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2007/04/28/one-laptop-per-child-production-delays-caused-by-microsoft-intel/
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
Lessons from Africa: How to Kill Your Own FUD
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| So, even as Microsoft claims superior quality over Linux, they act as if they
| don't even buy their own FUD. If they really believed that Windows was
| superior to Linux, they wouldn't have to bribe people with “marketing help”
| to get them to choose Windows.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-09-030-26-OP-MD-MS
[Mandriva CEO:] An open letter to Steve Ballmer
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| Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their
| mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone.
| How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my
| place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.
|
| Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
|
| Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one.
| You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics
| you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win
| too.
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http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
Not Such a Harsh Toke, Actually
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| This is socially, economically, politically and otherwise innovative. It is
| good for democracy too in some of the few remaining places that good thing is
| having trouble getting hold. We regard that thing too lightly, I fear.
|
| The Gates | Otellini axis directly hurts us deeply. To me, it is a
| particularly American shame.
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/11/not-such-a-hars.html
Here it is from a better source
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| About the meeting with Microsoft, he mentioned that he got a request from
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| M.R. Pridiyathorn Devakula, deputy prime minister. [Note: It seems
| likely that the early meeting with Microsoft was about going to see
| the operation of British e-government.) Dr.Sitthichai said he will
| use his own money and contact British government directly instead.
|
| For the OLPC project, he asserted that he does not oppose or intend
| cancel the project. This project was initiated during Thaksin's
| government with no financial support plan. Therefore, the government
| does not have budget to support the project. Kamthorn had a chance
| to clarify and talk about the project for a little while. The
| minister said he will bring that up for the next meeting with
| OLPC working group which Dr.Djitt Laowattana serves as a board
| director.
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http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/countries/thailand/news/thai-open-sourcers-meet-ict-minister
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| "Thailand's new junta-appointed Education Minister has cancelled
| Thailand's participation in the One Laptop Per Child project and
| scrapped a plan to give a 2B1 laptop to every primary school student ..
| He cited the lack of readiness of teachers"
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/11/28/026232.shtml
Thai Open Sourcers Meet ICT Minister
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| Eight representatives from Thai Open Source Associations and
| users/developers of open source software met Dr. Sitthichai, Thai
| ICT minister, discussing about open source in Thailand and roles
| of the government.
|
| They handed the open letter (asking for support of open source) with
| 800 names of supporters on to the minister. He apologized and
| admitted that he is hardware-oriented and does not have knowledge
| about software that much. He said he does not oppose. He just
| does not know. From now on, he is willing to support open source
| software usage and development by the local industry.
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http://www.localfoss.org/Thai_Open_Sourcers_Meet_ICT_Minister
Thai FOSS Community Responds to IT Minister
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| Other than these, we see the following economic advantages in adopting open
| source software:
|
| 1. Reduction in the piracy rate...
| 2. Supporting the development of technology in-country...
| 3. Increasing the potential of Thai developers.
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http://www.localfoss.org/Thai_FOSS_Community_Responds_to_IT_Minister
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