Another audacious philanthropic idea that could benefit billions of the world's poorest people squashed by corporate greed. Intel and Microsoft wont make any money on these children (Windows XP + MS Office for $3) but they clearly cannot let someone else potentially damage their future market. Gosh no, that would look bad on some VP's annual performance review. Better to help children to WinTel than to help them help themselves.
Thanks Intel!
Thanks Microsoft!
WinTel will argue that geting any PC's to the poor is a good thing but that misses the point (and the amazing design) of the XO. People here can barely keep their WinTel PC's running properly; how is some kid in Rwanda gonna keep his Dell working after it has been dropped in the mud a few times? Or after it has been zombie-fied by a virus.
Learn more and use your own money to donate an XO.
Ive been wondering what my daughter's first computer should be; based on the techie feedback on this XO machine, I think I have found it.
words:
A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech Giants
November 24, 2007
Wall Street Journal
podcast:
December 3rd, 2007
Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Steve Stecklow, and Cory Doctorow
Intel and Microsoft undermine One Laptop Per Child and Verizon Wireless opens its network...
