Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Intel & Microsoft Killed the $100 Laptop
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>> The article points that the stand taken by Intel and
>> Microsoft is similar to the stand by large drug companies
>> who, instead of working for the illnesses that plague the
>> poor, (such as malaria) choose to focus on low-volume,
>> high-margin drugs for cancer, heart ailments and diabetes.
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> http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Intel_Microsoft_Killed_the_100_Laptop/551-92095-581.html
THE SURGEON GENERAL WARNS:
"Use of a truly low cost netbook and Linux may lead to literacy
and open minded thinking."
Heh!
Me thinks the ARM based netbooks will go a longer way to what Mr.
Negroponte had invisioned and intended.
> Is There a Shortage of U.S. Tech Workers?
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>> [...] Gates said [...] "I think that has created an
>> environment where the population of advanced skill workers
>> has shrunk a lot in the U.S., because we just haven't
>> created a fair system," he says. "Where if you go to other
>> countries, you'll find national policy around broadband
>> deployment, which creates a much more even playing field for
>> people of all income levels to learn by and work by."
>>
>> "We did it to ourselves," he says.
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> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3667376
Why did not Microsoft continue to hire US nationals? I would
think the right people would be able to produce a better product
if paid competitively and with proper guidance. Me thinks rather
that Microsoft went offshore for decreased development costs and
increased profits.
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HPT
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