Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Winners of the Intel-AMD War
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> | The rhetoric is as vicious as in any real war. The OLPC project was
> | recently the subject of a 60 Minutes segment. In it, Negroponte told
> | Lesley Stahl that Intel has been "shameless" in trying to kill the project.
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> http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/stockpickr/10363182.html
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| The XO-1's operating system is the open-source Fedora Core with the
| Sugar user interface produced by Red Hat. Red Hat, a $4.5 billion
| company with $400 million of revenue in 2006, has made a lot of
| money from free, open-source software. There's no reason it can't
| do even better with an extra billion customers.
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Here we go again. These kids *are not customers*!!! Jesus!!!
How exactly will Red Hat financially benefit from "an extra billion"
users of a *Free community distro* of Linux?
The mind boggles at the reporter's ignorance; what part of "non-profit"
doesn't he understand?
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| What about the "shameless" charge that Negroponte leveled at Intel?
| There have been charges in the blogosphere that Intel is
| price-dumping to kill OLPC. According to Intel, the Classmate will
| retail for under $200.
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| However, according to this blogger, who has used both the OLPC and
| the Classmate, the Classmate's production cost is $400. Could Intel
| take a $200 loss each on a billion computers? Is a
| soon-to-be-obsolete PC with an x86 processor and a 2-hour battery
| life what the world's poorest children need? What's Intel's purpose?
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I would have thought that was obvious - exploitation and greed.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| "People are not happy in stinking hellholes of abject poverty, what
| is true is that once you cross subsistence ... additional increases
| in wealth have virtually no effect on well-being ... This is worth
| knowing in case you have a choice between "X" and making more
| money, almost certainly "X" is what you should choose."
| - Barry Schwartz
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02:30:29 up 14 days, 14:16, 5 users, load average: 1.66, 1.77, 1.71
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