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On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 21:49 +0100, Tom Brough wrote: > Adrian Midgley wrote: > > >Julian Hall wrote: > > > > > >>*Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine > >>the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte.* > >> > >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6675833.stm > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >Concur. > > > > > > > There are issues with the OLPC design, but on balance Intels position > is purely commercial. I suspect they have been planning this since they > where snubbed in favour of AMD by OLPC. Also a point to note, that Intel > where very much in the Microsoft camp at the WSIS in Tunisa. > > IMO Intel are peddling a "product", what the OLPC team are producing is > a solution the design of which is based on needs and best know > educational practicies. Its a pitty its taken over 40 years to get from > the original research principals founded by Seymour Papert to a > collaboration tool like the OLPC, but at least the effort has shifted up > a gear. Sure there are elements of the design that may be classed as > clumsy, it may not be powerful enough, and it may not be as sustainable > as its creator would have wished, but it follows the correct ethos. The > correct path is however rarely the easiest and it would be a shame to > see Intel trading on a name in order to prise cash from developing > nations to the detrement of OLPC efforts to produce a common "education > platform". > > Intels position will do nothing to foster native software development > and commerce, only create another channel in which money flows from poor > to rich while technological exchange trickles ever so slowly the other > way ( and that the way some would like it to stay). IMO Keeping self > determination out of the reaches of developing nations is what global > commercials like Intel and Microsoft do best whether its their intention > or not. > > I suspect however that Intel will get their way ....... When you can > throw as much cash at advertising as Intel and Microsoft can ... it > makes life difficult for the little guys. > > America has American Software Developers > Europe has European Software Developers > Its time Africa had African Software Developers...... > > Tom. > Just for this I will never buy Intel again. > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html