Why Intel and OLPC Parted Ways

runamock writes "The New York Times has an article that sheds some light on why Intel left the OLPC board: 'A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian official to drop the country's commitment to buy a quarter-million of the organization's laptops in favor of Intel PCs. Intel and the group had a rocky relationship from the start in their short-lived effort to get inexpensive laptops into the hands of the world's poorest children. But the saleswoman's tactic was the final straw for Nicholas Negroponte.'"

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The poorest

[BPPG]

I hope it's not really "the poorest children" that are getting the laptops. You can't eat a laptop. Give them to the second poorest.

Re:No surprise here

[Peter Nikolic]

> stock holders get pissed Oh dear what a flamin shame darn stock ho9lders demanding ever bigger slices of the pie get right up my thrupenny bits and thay all need to kiss off outta the way And yea so what if i get Karma bad at least i aint affraid of sayin what has to be said .

Re:No surprise here

[coolGuyZak]

Consider yourself lucky. It was unfairly comprehensible to me. O.o

Or, in the case of the girls...

[mosel-saar-ruwer]

For the rest of them [the other 80%, or thereabouts], they'll just be using their OLPC laptops to download pr0n and text-message their meth dealers [or clients].

Or, in the case of the girls, to upload pr0n.

Re:So they're a normal corporation, eh?

[multisync]

Negroponte, however, appears to be trying to limit consumer choices and stifle competition.

Ah, yes. That's really what this is all about, isn't it. Negroponte is a threat to US corporations, who want nothing more than to prepare poor children in developing countries for a life of enslavement to US corporations and consumption of their products. How dare he attempt to provide them with a tool that merely educates them, without corralling them into the MS/Intel silo, like their North American counterparts.

He's probably a communist, too.

you can eat a laptop

[r00t]

There was a guy in France who ate a whole bicycle. He powdered it and mixed it into his food for a year.

The laptop is RoHS-compliant, so you don't have to worry about toxic stuff like mercury and lead.

Just Eat It.