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

[Morgan Collett]

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/04/technology/kirkpatrick_negroponte.fortune/

"An exclusive Fortune interview with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of
the One Laptop Per Child initiative, regarding Intel's defection from
the project."

"The biggest single reason was that they were directly selling their
Classmate laptop as opposed to having it be a reference design."

"And then they started using their position on the board of OLPC as a
sort of credibility statement. When they disparaged the XO to other
countries they said that they should know about it because they were
on the board. They even had somebody go to Peru, which was a done deal
for OLPC, and rant and rave to the vice minister in charge. He
dutifully took copious notes and was stunned."

"We're like the World Food Program and they're McDonald's."