First joining, then ditching, MIT’s One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) project aiming at giving a laptop to one billion of the world’s poorest children suggests that Intel, like Rhett Butler, no longer gives a damn.
Whereas Rhett Butler was only rejecting Scarlett O’Hara, Intel seems to be rejecting common humanity. OLPC is not a business issue, it's a decency issue.
Apparently Intel refused to get behind a single design for OLPC, preferring to back its own Classmate laptop.
Intel joined OLPC last July after OLPC initiator, MIT 's Nicholas Negroponte, had called Intel ‘shameless’ in its efforts to compete with OLPC.
Last week, Negroponte said that during its time on the OLPC board, Intel 'were reallly behaving badly' in trying to scupper deals for distributing laptops to poor children which the OLPC had fixed up with the governments of Mongolia and Peru.
Like Milwall supporters, Intel seems to be saying: ‘No one likes us and we don’t care’.
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Comments (2)
Another reason to buy PCs with AMD processors!
Posted by Peter B | February 12, 2008 8:42 PM
Posted on February 12, 2008 20:42
Yes indeed.
Intel was such a great pioneering company, before it went sole-source on the 386.
Subesequently it concentrated on enforcing a monopoly rather than innovating.
Posted by David Manners | February 13, 2008 10:02 AM
Posted on February 13, 2008 10:02