Nicholas Negroponte. A name you don't know. But a great man. He's the one who came up with the idea of the cheap laptop that could be used in developing countries to give them access to the digital age. How did he do it? Well, he worked with AMD, News Corp., Google, and Red Hat, (which created a Linux-based operating system for the laptop) and the choice of AMD seems to be where big problems have come from.
AMD is, of course, a chip manufacture. One of two major players in the computer chip world, the other being Intel. I imagine Intel weren't to pleased to find their rival being connected with such a great scheme so...
can you guess which company is now selling a cheap laptop (actually at below production cost) to developing countries. Yes - that's right. Intel is. Rather than work with Mr. Negroponte for the benefit of children across the world they've opted to compete and make a loss on each machine they sell.
Pointless, and as Mr. Negroponte says "they should be ashamed of themselves". Too right.
