__/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 01 June 2007 20:39 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Which laptop per child?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The chipmaking giant Intel is accused of damaging the non-profit scheme
>> | to provide cheap laptops for the developing world. It says it's helping.
>
> Good to see mainstream media exposing Intel's vile behaviour.
>
> "It turns out what people are looking for is something that has the full
> functionality of a PC." - Craig Barrett, Intel chairman.
>
> What he means is "runs Windows", or IOW in his opinion PC's are not
> "fully functional" unless they're running Microsoft's proprietary
> Crapware. The fact that Windows actually *reduces* functionality seems
> to have escaped him. Is a bloated OS that reduces the system to a crawl
> *more* functional? Is a Swiss Cheese OS full of vulnerabilities *more*
> functional ... to the user (rather than a spammer looking to extend his
> botnet)? Is a buggy OS that BSOD's and trips out in a stiff breeze
> *more* functional? Why the hell anyone would want to run Windows on a
> *regular* computer is an utter mystery, but to infect machines targeted
> at third world schoolchildren with it, is sheer lunacy.
>
> Then there's his statement "... what people are looking for ...".
> *Which* people would that be exactly? Third World schoolchildren? He's
> talking about kids who have never even *seen* a PC before, and he
> expects us to believe that this is "what [they] are looking for".
> Bullshit. What these people are *looking* for is a way out of the
> poverty trap, by obtaining access to technology ... not by satisfying
> some arrogant perception of a market demographic in order to line
> Intel's pockets.
>
> Third World schoolchildren are not *customers*. This isn't a *market*,
> this is *aid*.
>
>> Merrill: Intel's More Interested In Crushing AMD Than Improving Margins
>
> I will never (knowingly) buy another Intel product as long as I live.
I made this decision months ago... when their predatory practices against AMD
(including under-the-table payments to OEMS) got revealed. AMD are not the
only ones affected, mind you. Asia can't stand them either.
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