Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 10 11:26:24 UTC 2008
Hi
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4472654.ece
"Negroponte had also hooked a spectacular range of backers: Red Hat,
Google, AMD, Brightstar and News Corporation (the parent company of The
Sunday Times). These each contributed $2m upfront and then a further
$500,000. All the companies put in money as sponsorship rather than
investment"
"Microsoft may have used words and a refusal to co-operate as its
weapons against the XO; Intel used brute force. The company dominates
global computer hardware in the way that Microsoft dominates the
software. And, like Microsoft, it is a fierce protector of its ascendancy. "
Rahul
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