Fearful Symmetry
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| I've noted before that Microsoft is in difficulty over the ultra-mobile
| machines like the Asus EEE PC; now it seems that the other half of the Wintel
| duopoly is also in trouble because of the new triple-P (price, performance
| and power) demands these systems make....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/fearful-symmetry.html
And Intel has attacked Linux already, along/without Microsoft.
Speaking Truth to Power Sometimes Involves Yelling
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| It is, admittedly, very easy to put the blame on companies out to do harm to
| Linux, free, and open source software. Because sometimes that blame is
| justified. When Mandriva's CEO called Microsoft out for attempting to co-op
| Mandriva's deal for pre-loaded Classmate PCs in Nigeria last November, the
| evidence was pretty overwhelming.
|
| Now, there's suddenly a lawsuit against the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
| project in that same country, claiming patent infringement on the part of
| OLPC, and demanding $20 million. "Conspiracy theorists" might say this is
| just one more attempt to protect Microsoft's desktop share in Nigeria. Heck,
| I could get really crazy and point the finger at Intel, now that they're on
| the outs with OLPC. Or even... (hushed whisper) Mandriva. We know how evil
| they are!
|
| In all honesty, I have no idea what's behind this lawsuit. It's probably just
| for money, in the classic ambulance-chaser style, and I will let it go at
| that until I hear differently.
|
| Byfield would have the people who accuse Microsoft or any other company of
| deception labeled as conspiracy theorists. That label has a negative
| connotation, but I understand its application in this instance. Where I
| disagree with Byfield is how bad such accusations and speculations really
| are.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-01-04-016-26-OP-CY
Recent:
One Laptop Per Child President Fires Back At Intel
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| "We got constant complaints from people in the field that they were being
| bullied by Intel," said Bender. "That was the message we got from anybody and
| everybody working on these educational problems in the developing world."
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http://www.crn.com/hardware/205208838
Laptop Project Blames Intel for Breakup
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| Negroponte said Intel even tried to undo a deal One Laptop had already sealed
| in Peru by citing flaws in the One Laptop "XO" machine and telling government
| ministers "we ought to know, because we are on the board." Such hostile
| comments were prohibited, Negroponte claimed, under the July peace treaty
| that brought Intel into the One Laptop Per Child camp.
|
| "I want to say we tried, but it was never a partnership," Negroponte
| said. "There's not one single thing in their contract or agreement that they
| lived up to."
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXa0O9XLMsWfaqt-sI9FqFy2IewgD8TVAD7OA
Laptop-Project Founder Faults Intel
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| Oscar Becerra Tresierra, general director for educational technology at
| Peru's Ministry of Education, says that after the country recently agreed to
| buy 272,500 OLPC laptops for primary-school students, an Intel sales
| representative tried "to scare us" by claiming the machines and their power
| adapters didn't work. "I don't feel very happy about it," he said. "We
| wouldn't like the project to fail because somebody is spreading gossip about
| the machines that doesn't turn out to be true."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119948070480568405.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Local OEMs boycott Microsoft, Intel
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| The local Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the country may have
| commenced boycotting of placing orders on the Operating System (OS)
| dominantly supplied by the software giant, Microsoft Corporation and computer
| processor manufacturer, Intel Corporation offices in the country.
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http://itrealms.blogspot.com/2007/11/local-oems-boycott-microsoft-intel.html
OLPC: Won't Miss Intel's 'Half-Hearted' Laptop Effort
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| Intel's resignation from the board of directors will have "no impact" on the
| group's operations, OLPC President Walter Bender said in an interview.
|
| [...]
|
| "We never really got much going with Intel to have an impact," Bender said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140998-c,intel/article.html
Intel's OLPC moves blighted by the old paranoia
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| The OLPC project is not about raking in money or cut-throat competition, it
| is about getting those without connectivity an entry into the digital world.
| It is about empowering those without power. It is a non-profit for a reason.
| Didn't you get this?
|
| By pushing the Classmate, you are doing everything that you should not do.
| You are dividing a market that needs no division and you look like childish,
| tantrum-throwing bullies.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/04/intel-quits-olpc-huff
Worries about PC sales snowball; Intel downgraded
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| In a research note on Friday, J.P. Morgan analyst Christopher Danely
| downgraded Intel from “overweight” to “neutral.” Intel, along with AMD and
| other chip makers, was downgraded on Wednesday over the same concern. The big
| fear: An economic slowdown is crimping PC sales. Danely slightly lowered his
| earnings and revenue targets for Intel.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7480
Intel Falls As Analyst Downgrades
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| He lowered his target price to $26 from $32.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080102/intel_mover.html?.v=2
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