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ShedBOy
9th January 2008, 12:45
After reading this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7178241.stm - im amazed at the approach that intel has taken. I mean comments like "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." are amazing. Surely they can't have been that shallow? I mean, i know they are a large corporation, but to take that approach over a charitable project...

Their response "The premise that we actually divorced over is that there is not one solution. No one company, no one solution has a monopoly on kids." for me highlights that they saw this as a market to win over, as opposed to being a charitable venture in which they could make a valuable contribution

It's stuff like that that gives corporations the reputations they have aquired over the years

Freelance
9th January 2008, 13:04
http://overclockers.com/tips01274/ does a good write up on it
OLPC succeeded before even building a single unit by drawing attention to the fact that what the less-than-rich world needs is a simple, cheap, portable computer.