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Jan 5 2008 12:15AM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Intel, Technology, OLPC
Overheard: Intel was kicked out of One Laptop Per Child program
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Intel, Technology, OLPC
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Responding to [Intel's proactive] announcement Thursday that it was severing ties with the One Laptop Per Child project, Mr. Negroponte said, “They’ve been doing damage in the marketplace with countries since the day we started. And after we made peace with them, they did more damage.”
Steve Stecklow, Negroponte Lashes Out at Intel For ‘Damage’ to Laptop Project |
Now that the dust has settled, it’s looking like Intel didn’t drop out of the OLPC program — it got kicked out for pitching their own low-end laptops, Classmate PC, to the same audience the OLPCs were intended for. Shouldn’t this little soap opera belong on All My Children?
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