Microsoft Intel And The War Against The XO Laptop

courtesy of curiouslee

After seeing that number of the comments on the post I’ve decided that I better respond with a discussion of my own.

It is only natural for companies to try and prevent a situation that they are left out of a major project, it is basic politics.

The article is really intense and yes I gues Negrophnte was naive but even with the severe obstacles that the project faced it is still a great success, if we think about t

“I had wildly underestimated,” says Negroponte, “the degree to which commercial entities will go to disrupt a humanitarian project.”

I guess he has learned a lot about human nature since. It is not even the desire for profits through the project it is just the need to be at the center of the stage and that everything that anyone else receives is always the result of the great companies coming to the rescues and never ever enabling the links of dependency to be freed.

A more realistic person would have known that Microsoft and Intel don’t care what people have it is the desire that they get it through them and most importantly that they remember to say thank you in a well photographed ceremony.