Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st May 2007 13:40 UTC, submitted by Laurence
Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the USD 100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte. He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets. Professor Negroponte, who aims to distribute millions of laptops to kids in developing countries, said Intel had hurt his mission "enormously".
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2005-11-10
Negroponte is fussing because Intel has come in with their slick marketing and gone to governments and said:
"Hey even though ours costs $250, we will underwrite a chunk of the costs so our machine costs only $150 We will even get MS in here to market to you and then we will have Windows installed and ready for you. Oh you want vista later, got to pay for that, but you don't need that anyway."
And then people go to OLPC and say can you match it? And OLPC has to say no cause it has no money!
Negroponte did this out of his own idea to help people. Intel is doing this just like MS wants in on it to keep market share. That is all!
MS and Intel wants other kids to grow up like Americans knowing only Intel and MS and only buying that.
Nothing wrong with that if OLPC was a for profit business. But it's not.
Edited 2007-05-21 16:46