'$100 laptop' sparks war of words (BBC)

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Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte.

He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets.

Professor Negroponte, who aims to distribute millions of laptops to kids in developing countries, said Intel had hurt his mission "enormously".
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"Yes people laugh at it, then they criticise it, then they copy it."
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Professor Negroponte says Intel has distributed marketing literature to governments with titles such as "the shortcomings of the One Laptop per Child approach", which outline the supposedly stronger points of the Classmate.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6675833.stm

[Deja Q]

1. Negroponte, it's just business in a free market society. Bugger off.

:P

[papau]

2. M$ sells Win XP +Office for $3 as Intel sells $400 laptop for $250 - nah - there is no "undermining"

Just good business to stop the first 3 million orders in their tracks.

Monopoly in software or chips is just so much more profitable - besides the damn $100 laptop uses AMD chips and Linux and the free open office clones - and we can't have that now can we.