Intel backs One Laptop Per Child
p2pnet news | product news:- Wouldn’t it be great if Intel decided to get behind MIT’s One Laptop Per Child project, created to bring children in Africa into the 21st digital century? – p2pnet posted last month, going on:
Instead, Intel is competing against it with a hardcore commercial unit purpose-designed to funnel corporate product into the homes of African families many, if not most, of whom are surviving at subsistence level, or below.
Now, “The One Laptop Per Child program and Intel said Friday that the chipmaker would join the board of the non-profit and contribute funding,” says USA Today, going on:
“The non-profit effort – known as the “$100 laptop” because of the low price it hopes to reach with mass production – has been trying to line up governments in several countries to buy the machines, which for now cost $175. But competition from Intel’s child-focused Classmate PC has made things tough in some countries for One Laptop Per Child.”
OLPC and Chipzilla said today the latter will join the former’s board and contribute funding.
Now all that’s needed is for Microsoft which, like Intel, has been scornful of the OPLC project, to follow suit.
Also See:
p2pnet – Intel, Asustek vs OLPC, June 7, 2007
USA Today – Intel, ‘$100 laptop’ project make peace, July 13, 2007
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July 13th, 2007 at 10:43 am
one laptop per child is linux based so microsoft will never help.
after all they have described linux as a cancer on microsofts business.