Negroponte vs Intel

Yogi_Stewart_4 writes "More OLPC/Intel love — apparently Intel used 'underhanded' tactics to try to block sales' contracts of the OLPC, trying to reach the customer directly after an agreement had been reached. "They would go in even after we had signed contracts and try to persuade government officials to scrap their contract and sign a contract with them instead. That's not a partnership." Mr Negroponte cited an example in Peru where Intel sales staff tried to persuade the country's vice-minister of education, Oscar Becerra Tresierra, to buy the Intel Classmate PC."

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I'm British, I know irony.

[Macthorpe]

Hmm. From Wikipedia:

Irony, from the Greek 'eiron', is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is generally understood. Dictionary.com:

the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning Looks an awful lot like irony to me. I really hope that was an attempt to be humourously derisive of people who don't know the meaning of the word 'irony', because otherwise you just made yourself look like a total cockrag.