Fuck Intel
i wanted to be delicate with the way i titled this post... i feel like i struck a nice balance.
recently, i blogged that because the information age promises to be more significant than the bronze age, the iron age or the industrial revolution, the $100 laptop promises to do more than say, the loom in fighting poverty and injustice.
but now intel has screwed around with the OLPC project and officially pulled out of it with this announcement. all sounds very corporate and official sounding.
nicholas negroponte responded with this statement. it's worth a read. sounds to me like he didn't feel the need to hold back. i applaud that.
what intel has done is immoral. the are thinking with their dick wallet rather than their head.
i'm glad my macs still have motorola's chips inside. i mean, motorola got lazy and apple was right to can them. but i rue the day i need to ever buy an intel chip again.
recently, i blogged that because the information age promises to be more significant than the bronze age, the iron age or the industrial revolution, the $100 laptop promises to do more than say, the loom in fighting poverty and injustice.
but now intel has screwed around with the OLPC project and officially pulled out of it with this announcement. all sounds very corporate and official sounding.
nicholas negroponte responded with this statement. it's worth a read. sounds to me like he didn't feel the need to hold back. i applaud that.
what intel has done is immoral. the are thinking with their dick wallet rather than their head.
i'm glad my macs still have motorola's chips inside. i mean, motorola got lazy and apple was right to can them. but i rue the day i need to ever buy an intel chip again.
posted by P3T3RK3Y5 for meltingearth
2 Comments:
wow... I think I'm most disturbed by a non-profit motive gone for-profit (Intel's classmate). It seems like a desperately selfish move to bail on the non-profit XO and invest in XO's for-profit competitor, the Classmate (against OLPC's requests). But then without philanthropic roots, Intel can only be seen as no less profit-driven than the others on the board... if not just the first to admit it... I wonder what we may see from the other board members when the XO begins competing with them. I think this is Tim Sanders the Abundance vs. Scarcity thinking represented classically. See http://ezinearticles.com/?Scarcity-Versus-Abundance&id=844175
I think aspects of the truely spiritual life/mind (and Tim Sanders agrees) is what really breaks this scarcity/competition approach and will take the fall for the sake of the greater ALL...
guys are scurvy dogs. thats nothing new. we are.
still, there are unwritten rules about how you treat single moms, and whole nations of poor.
you don't fuck around with them. you just don't.
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