Intel and Microsoft tried to kill OLPC

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 08/09/2008 - 21:24

This is the story of the OLPC project since it was announced in January of 2005. Intel and Microsoft are monopolies that used brute force to delay the OLPC non-profit open-source project from starting the cheap laptop revolution, taking away the profit margins from a multi-hundred-billion dollar laptop and PC industry.


 

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