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

Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonathan at ubuntu.com
Fri Jan 4 08:00:57 EST 2008


*sigh*

I wish people would learn to make friends and not enemies. Exclusivity 
clauses are so 80's.

-Jonathan

Morgan Collett wrote:
> 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 that it's a newer version of the Classmate PC with built-in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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