Here are some additional points to consider. OLPC is a non-profit who has as it's mission to design and put technology in the hands of students in developing countries to aid education. The reason why the lap-top is inexpensive is that it is not designed to make a profit. The OLPC is an education program using the laptop as a tool to accomplish educational goals. Remember the project came out of MIT and has attracted some of the best minds in the field of education.
Intel's "Classmate" is a durable laptop created after Intel saw the developing world's children as a untapped market. It is clear the OLPC is an educational program and the Classmate is a laptop which could be used for education.
There is nothing wrong with competition when two companies compete. But to pretend to be helping a non-profit at the same time your sales force is trying to talk Peru into dropping it's order for the OLPC is unethical at best!
According to the New York Times, "In Peru, where One Laptop has begun shipping the first 40,000 PCs of a 270,000 system order, Isabelle Lama, an Intel saleswoman, tried to persuade Peru’s vice minister of education, Oscar Becerra Tresierra, that the Intel Classmate PC was a better choice for his primary school students."
"Unfortunately for Intel, the vice minister is a longtime acquaintance of Dr. Negroponte and Seymour Papert, a member of the One Laptop team and an M.I.T. professor who developed the Logo computer programming language. The education minister took notes on his contacts with the Intel saleswoman and sent them to One Laptop officials." "In a telephone interview Friday, Mr. Tresierra said that his government had asked Intel for a proposal for secondary-school machines, and it had responded with a proposal offering the Classmate PC for primary grades."
Add to the fact that INTEL issued a press release before it informed the OLPC Board, and you can clearly see a lack of any type of corporate Ethics. Dr. Negroponte is an educator not a business man. he had every right to explain how a knife had stabbed him in the back. Shame on INTEL
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Here are some additional points to consider. OLPC is a non-profit who has as it's mission to design and put technology in the hands of students in developing countries to aid education. The reason why the lap-top is inexpensive is that it is not designed to make a profit. The OLPC is an education program using the laptop as a tool to accomplish educational goals. Remember the project came out of MIT and has attracted some of the best minds in the field of education.
Intel's "Classmate" is a durable laptop created after Intel saw the developing world's children as a untapped market. It is clear the OLPC is an educational program and the Classmate is a laptop which could be used for education.
There is nothing wrong with competition when two companies compete. But to pretend to be helping a non-profit at the same time your sales force is trying to talk Peru into dropping it's order for the OLPC is unethical at best!
According to the New York Times, "In Peru, where One Laptop has begun shipping the first 40,000 PCs of a 270,000 system order, Isabelle Lama, an Intel saleswoman, tried to persuade Peru’s vice minister of education, Oscar Becerra Tresierra, that the Intel Classmate PC was a better choice for his primary school students."
"Unfortunately for Intel, the vice minister is a longtime acquaintance of Dr. Negroponte and Seymour Papert, a member of the One Laptop team and an M.I.T. professor who developed the Logo computer programming language. The education minister took notes on his contacts with the Intel saleswoman and sent them to One Laptop officials." "In a telephone interview Friday, Mr. Tresierra said that his government had asked Intel for a proposal for secondary-school machines, and it had responded with a proposal offering the Classmate PC for primary grades."
Add to the fact that INTEL issued a press release before it informed the OLPC Board, and you can clearly see a lack of any type of corporate Ethics. Dr. Negroponte is an educator not a business man. he had every right to explain how a knife had stabbed him in the back. Shame on INTEL