 Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept
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| Plowing ahead in order to make your life better by educating the third world; that way you're on equal footing with your economic equal!
Isn't Intel trying their hardest to put some lowly millionaire out of business with this? The guy with the $100 (or $200) notebook computer?
I was going past Pravda, uh, I mean 60 minutes a few weeks back and thought I saw the story. Seems Intel smelled a market (this guy's) and decided to cash him out while they cashed in. But then Intel could smell a fart amongst a cavalcade of shitwagons.
Ahhh ... nothing like Corporate Goodwill with a profit tag attached.
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| said by Titus Pullo:Isn't Intel trying their hardest to put some lowly millionaire out of business with this? The guy with the $100 (or $200) notebook computer? Negroponte (the guy with the $100 notebook) isn't necessarily a "business". He's a tech guy who took some time off from MIT (or wherever) to pursue a mostly philanthropic vision.
Negroponte's been his own worst enemy. The $100 laptop became a $140 laptop. Then $180. Then $200. He thought he had some contracts with foreign governments. A year passed, the governments backed out, and Negroponte remarked that he's not a businessman and had mistaken a handshake for a real commitment. Lately he's been promoting a "buy one, give one" campaign (which makes it a $400 laptop in order to get a laptop into the hands of a child).
I don't blame corporations for leaving. As they do, Negroponte blames them instead of himself for his troubles. He had a great vision. But, that doesn't make a business.
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| Well it made it 400$, but that bill would have been footed by consumers of the first world making it effectively "free." Intel didn't want that though as I recall. |
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