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Re: Gates on OLPC

____/ Rex Ballard on Tuesday 08 January 2008 18:54 : \____

> On Jan 8, 10:28 am, "ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> <ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> <Quote>
>> Gates: OLPC hasn't done that well.
> 
> I wonder if the fact that Microsoft and the Gates foundation keep
> having private conversations with the leaders who are about to adopt
> OLPCs may have something to do with it.  At the moment, OLPCs are on
> Back-order.  They can't keep up with the demand.

Microsoft actively sabotaged and intervened. Intel is dumping.

Africa's digital poster child

"The renovation has been paid for by the government and Intel, with the chip
firm covering the majority of the costs of the technology."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7115218.stm

Their claims of charity are nothing but a case of cut-throat competition. It's
like robber barons claiming credit for 'helping' the very same people they
exploit.

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