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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OLPC is a non profit, why would they be thinking of "Market" They are thinking of helping people. But helping people is not free.
Intel is ONLY thinking in terms of market share (Since they will loose money at first to keep OLPC from growing)
That is the problem here. If OLPC was a for profit business and this was straight compitition then that is fine.
But OLPC is non profit and Intel is just doing this for market share. And we know this because as shown on the show last night Intel's marketing documentation compares their product to the OLPC to show their product it better.
If Intel was doing it for the same reason that OLPC was then why put down OLPC?
Edited 2007-05-21 17:40