Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sun 10th Aug 2008 16:38 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"Microsoft, makers of most of the computer software in the world, tried to kill it with words, and Intel, maker of most computer chips, tried to kill it with dirty tricks. Of course, they don't admit to being attempted murderers. And when I introduce you to Intel's lovely spokesperson, Agnes Kwan, you'll realise how far their denials go. But the truth is the two mightiest high-tech companies in the world looked on Negroponte's philanthropic scheme and decided it had to die."
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I think that creating loss-making competition and lobbying (the polite word for bribing) officials in poorer countries to go with it instead of the OX is what upset people. Countries that were ready to put in orders of 10s or 100s of 1000s of the XO just happened to change their mind after a visit by the local Intel/MS lobbyists.
The OLPC project only had such fatal internal problems because it was in a battle it could never win. In a more idealistic world, millions of children would be enjoying an education with a computer* right now instead of playing with sticks in dirt.
* designed to work in the places a normal computer can't operate, unlike the MS/Intel offering