[ale] OLPC latest blows

[Ned Williams]

Do not kid yourself for one second about the OLPC..remember that Quanta who
happens to make the PC is (a) the largest notebook manufacturer in the world
and (b) a Chinese company, thus legal happenings in the US section really
don't mean squat to them..the OLPC project may die due  to the ignorant and
pretentious nature of  NN but quanta will in no way let their newly tooled
product line be a loss we will just get  the newest QUANTA POCKET-COMPUTER!
to hit store shelves if the project dies...

Ned


On Jan 4, 2008 10:00 AM, Daniel Howard <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:

> http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9839806-37.html?tag=nefd.top
>
> Not only has the CTO of OLPC resigned to commercialize her OLPC
> inventions, but now Intel has left the OLPC board, assumedly so it can
> pursue the ClassBook and other low cost PCs.  Figure on serious
> competition for the OLPC sooner rather than later.  Negroponte has
> demonstrated a lack of marketing savvy: why would he even think he could
> insist that Intel stop working on competing products or helping
> competitors like Asus...standard practice is to negotiate a delay in
> competitive offering, not prevent it altogether.  So now I'm beginning
> to think the OLPC won't pan out after all, even though it is a very
> laudable effort and lots of good new thinking came from it.  Great ideas
> killed by market/business issues seems to be the rule rather than the
> exception these days...
>
> Hang onto thse OLPCs guys, they may be collectible someday; my wife is
> keeping all our old calculators for just that reason; at least they
> don't take up as much space as her other collectibles.
>
> Daniel
>
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> Daniel Howard
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> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
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