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A day after learning that Intel was abandoning his project over “philosophical” differences, the laptop group’s founder, Nicholas Negroponte, said Intel’s sales representatives had been disparaging One Laptop Per Child as they pushed Intel’s sub-$300 Classmate PCs.
Negroponte said Intel even tried to undo a deal One Laptop had already sealed in Peru by citing flaws in the One Laptop “XO” machine and telling government ministers “we ought to know, because we are on the board.” Such hostile comments were prohibited, Negroponte claimed, under the July peace treaty that brought Intel into the One Laptop Per Child camp.
“I want to say we tried, but it was never a partnership,” Negroponte said. “There’s not one single thing in their contract or agreement that they lived up to.”
However, like the presidential candidates and those who’ve dropped out:
Negroponte said Friday that no longer having Intel on his team wouldn’t hurt his efforts to find more international buyers.
“No, it probably restores some momentum,” he said. “We were being extraordinarily distracted.”
Here’s more from TechBuzz and Endgadget.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:22 pm January 5th, 2008 in Business, Tech
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