Freetard football: Intel bails from OLPC.

January 04th, 2008 | Category: Tech News

Much love to the many readers who sent in urls about Intel bailing from the OLPC effort. whether you’ve not seen that yet, check out this quickie from Reuters. The Journal additionally has a piece that dawn. Gist of the divorce seems to be that Saint

Nicholas demanded that Intel drop its Classmate PC, a rival to the OLPC XO machine, and Intel wasn’t willing to do that. plus worth noting in the Journal story, whether you can find it online, is the paragraph toward the end which says OLPC claims its “Give 1 Get 1″ program has been successful, but declines to supply numbers.

You know the whole OLPC thing started […]

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