[Olpc-za] Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

Morgan Collett morgan.collett at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 05:10:21 EST 2008


I wonder if the Brazil contract had anything to do with it:

http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/brazil/david_cavallo_olpc_brazil.html says:

> The model offered by Positivo is still unknown but Intel has
> already congratulated them for winning, which led all to believe
> that it's a newer version of the Classmate PC with built-in
> camera and mesh networking.

Brazil buying classmates instead of XOs, when the tender had a lot of
XO-specific requirements like the mesh networking, might have soured
the relationship...


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