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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Re:Commercial sale risks alliance falling apart

[mrsteveman1]

If they would quit with the free love charity work and just agree to sell them to the market that wants them, those people (or others with similar abilities) could be EMPLOYED by the project.

The entire OLPC model is causing problems at this point, EeePC just completely stole the market from them with a better device, quicker.

Re:FPFPFPFP

[Colin Smith]

The best bet to help these kids is to give them SOMETHING. ANYTHING! Doesn't matter if it works or not as long as you feel better about yourself.

OLPC blows

[jgarra23]

This is not a troll. Hate having to preface things with that because mods here are so reactionary (but that's a different topic now!)...

There are some huge issues with the OLPC project. I'd say about 90% of the issues are misrepresented by people's agendas in this thread (read:anti-capitalists, AMD fanbois, Intel fanbois, etc...).

The problems are that:
-the organization is poorly run
-the officers are greedy
-the commercials to get you to donate suck
-the laptops are *NOT* being used as intended (well duh, come on!)
-the product looks like a toy
-false ideals are being used to further various agendas
-Microsoft wants a piece of the pie of course

The people who turned something which could be a good idea, could be altruistic, could make some changes in the world have actually created an unhealthy political baby which is being used by all sorts of uncouth individuals at all points and I'm not surprised Intel resigned. I won't donate to the United Way for the same reasons. The charity sucks and I'm better off giving cash to bums who would rather buy beer and cocaine than clothing and food.

Wake me up when the bullshit reasons stop.

Re:FPFPFPFP

[Lord Apathy]

More importantly why don't you ask me if I give a damn? I don't. Personally I think we should just wall up the whole damn place and let them kill each other. There maybe a few of them that are like that but for the most part everything south of the Sahara is a lost cause. The only thing that people seem to value is the gold and the diamonds there. Since I don't hold ether of those of any special value I see nothing in africa worth saving.

Then there is the animals, which I feel really bad for. Yes, for the most part I value the animal life in africa more than I do the people.

How is this for a plan? We wall the whole fucking place up for a 100 years. Nothing comes in or out. Then we let nature take its course. In a hundred years when they have killed each other, starved, or died off because of aids or some other preventable illness, we reintroduce the animals. Then we declare the whole god damn continent an animal preserve.