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by LoveDeathRobots 2456 days ago
What really killed OLPC:

"Negroponte of $100 One Laptop Per Child Sued for Patent Infringement"

http://www.huliq.com/43721/negroponte-100-one-laptop-child-s...

"Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC"

https://web.archive.org/web/20130517082425/http://www.p2pnet...

Oct 2005: “Remember that a key part of our strategy is to create a situation where even if Nick rejects us for philosophical reasons there is a long and visible history of our attempts to work with them and then we have to ask to get a license for the "open source hardware" and we will make our own offering on the commercial side.” Craig Mundie

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100114225709...