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[News] [Rival] The Story of Two Monopoly Abusers That Fought Charitable Causes

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] The Story of Two Monopoly Abusers That Fought Charitable Causes
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:39:13 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Who wants to kill the OLPC project?

,----[ Quote ]
| However, the project has lost some buzz and It is hard not to think that 
| there's a global neo-conspiracy to harm the OLPC project. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Both Microsoft and Intel are guilty of causing FUCD (Fear, Uncertainly, 
| Confusion and Doubt) both in the minds of the OLPC team, their prospective 
| customers and the tech audience.  
| 
| For example, Microsoft has been arduously courting OLPC to make sure that the 
| Windows Operating system is not excluded from any OLPC plans - a move that 
| has been condemned by many.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| So there we are. Microsoft trying to do some spread-betting and Intel 
| operating a divide and rule strategy, which have a direct effect on the OLPC 
| project.  
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Also see:

Intel is not competing, Intel wants to kill OLPC

http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/board/mboard.pl?board=lnitalkback&thread=2398&id=2403&display=1&tview=collapsed&mview=threaded
http://tinyurl.com/3cfwah


Related:

Poor Kids' Laptop Cranks Up

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates earlier this year told the Microsoft
| Government Leaders Forum, "Geez, get a decent computer where you can
| actually read the text and you?re not sitting there cranking the thing
| while you're trying to type" (see Bill Gates Mocks $100 Laptop).
`----

http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=17302 

One Laptop Per Child - Production Delays Caused By Microsoft, Intel?

,----[ Quote ]
| I sincerely hope that no matter what the people who are running the
| OLPC project decide, that their project will continue and not get
| bogged down in a play of corporate greed and ambitions.
`----

http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2007/04/28/one-laptop-per-child-production-delays-caused-by-microsoft-intel/


Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself" 

,----[ Quote ]
| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious 
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733


,----[ Quote ]
| That software effort does not have the support of Mr. Otellini, who
| is concerned about incurring Microsoft's wrath, the executive said.
| The two companies have a long history of tension over who controls
| the hardware and software direction of the "Wintel standard." Intel
| has said it is supporting both operating systems.
`----

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/technology/16chip.html?ex=1177560000&en=2ef52cee6b1fb0e3&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS


Intel Inside the Third World

,----[ Quote ]
| Negroponte has repeatedly criticized Intel for what he considers its 
| hardball tactics. And yet the rivals may be ready to bury the hatchet:
| BusinessWeek has learned that Intel and OLPC executives are in talks 
| regarding how they can work together.
`----

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2007/gb20070628_140912.htm?campaign_id=yhoo



Q&A: Intel's Maloney discusses digital divide

,----[ Quote ]
| The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project also hopes its low-cost XO laptop 
| can close the "digital divide" that exists between the developed world 
| and emerging markets.
| 
| Much has been made of these two efforts, which are often painted as 
| rivals by the media and observers.
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070611/tc_infoworld/89252


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.
|
| [...]
|
| It is not the first time that Intel has been accused of using its 
| near monopoly to overpower rivals - for example, it is being 
| investigated by the European Commission over allegations of 
| anti-competitive behaviour. AMD, Intel's only major rival and 
| the company which supplies the chips inside the XO-1, did not 
| waste an opportunity to go on the offensive.
| 
| "What we have here is an infinitely powerful monopoly 
| metaphorically threatening to break the kneecaps of a non-profit 
| if it doesn't 'get in line'," wrote AMD spokesman Michael 
| Silverman in a letter published on the Barron's website.
`----

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2091248,00.html


Merrill: Intel's More Interested In Crushing AMD Than Improving Margins

,----[ Quote ]
| They think that Intel is a lot more interested in reducing AMD to
| its former status than in showing much gross margin improvementt
| his year.
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070309/29149_id.html?.v=1


Negreponte says Intel spurned cheap laptop 

,----[ Quote ]
| Nicholas Negreponte at MIT said that Intel's Craig Barrett and
| Microsoft's Bill Gate had admitted remarks they'd made about the one
| notebook per child initiative were unfortunate.
| 
| Speaking to CNBC Europe, Negreponte said that from his point of view
| it was unfortunate too, because when he and his team talked to 
| leaders of small countries the remarks were thrown back in their
| face.
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34924



,----[ Quote ]
| Though Pentium 4s can sell for up to $637, Intel's average
| cost for making a chip comes to $40, according to a report
| from analysts In-Stat.
| 
| The report doesn't consider expenses related to design
| or marketing...
`----

http://news.com.com/Intels+manufacturing+cost+40+per+chip/2100-1006_3-5862922.html


Intel: Only "Open" for Business

,----[ Quote ]
| These vendors often want a quiet private discussion,
| because in a quiet private discussion they can continue to
| dismiss the requests and in the end do absolutely nothing.
| They do not want a noisy public discussion, because then
| they look bad. But they DESERVE TO LOOK BAD, because they
| are being bad to those who bought their hardware!
`----

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded

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