Negroponte: "We're the World Food Program and they're McDonald's"
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| The title quote is Nicholas Negroponte's in a response to Intel quitting
| Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in an interview with David
| Kirkpatrick of Fortune.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/negroponte_were.html
Microsoft: So Large to Ignore Management Mishaps
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| It's hard to catch decent news in Redmond these days. And with the news of
| the freshly departed Microsoft CIO, one has to wonder who is next in line to
| replace him? Yet the question remains - what was the actual event that got
| him fired? One unconfirmed source indicates that it was inappropriate
| behavior directed at other members of the staff, while another source
| indicates something was in conflict with his handling of company secrets.
|
| [...]
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| Has Microsoft Become Too Big To Catch These Problems Early On? Like any large
| company, you are going to have some employees that opt to do something really
| foolish. It happens, and more often than not, there's little that can be done
| about it. However, the question is - what happens when the company gets so
| large that even the CIO's mishaps go unnoticed? Has Microsoft finally hit
| this point? Or even worse, did they hit this point a long time ago?
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2725&Itemid=449
This happened around the time of Microsoft's bribe in Nigeria.
Related:
Lessons from Africa: How to Kill Your Own FUD
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| So, even as Microsoft claims superior quality over Linux, they act as if they
| don't even buy their own FUD. If they really believed that Windows was
| superior to Linux, they wouldn't have to bribe people with “marketing help”
| to get them to choose Windows.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-09-030-26-OP-MD-MS
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
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| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
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| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
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| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
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| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
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| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
[Mandriva CEO:] An open letter to Steve Ballmer
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| Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their
| mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone.
| How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my
| place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.
|
| Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
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| Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one.
| You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics
| you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win
| too.
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http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
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