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Intel Resigns from One Laptop Per Child Project
theodp writes "Reportedly angered by the One Laptop Per Child project's demand that it curtail work on its Classmate PC and other cheap laptops, Intel has resigned from the project's board and canceled plans for an Intel-based OLPC laptop. Intel's withdrawal from the project comes less than six months after the chip-making giant earned kudos for agreeing to contribute funding and join the board of OLPC. It's the latest blow to the OLPC, whose CTO quit earlier this week to launch a for-profit company to commercialize her OLPC inventions."
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In other news the one child who was due to receive his laptop has mysteriously vanished leaving the project in even more deep trouble.
Sources say the one child was expected to be waiting outside the gates of his school at the end of the day but did not turn up.
Speculation around the town says it was because he got into trouble and was given detention.
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It emerged in 2001 that they discriminate against gays in their hiring practices. (Actually it had emerged well before that but I hadn't been paying attention).
The Salvation Army is no longer acceptable to me and I no longer contribute to them.
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