The official Intel position:
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From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 5, 2008 3:18:26 PM MST
To: "ip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [IP] Intel on OLPC -- a IP report
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From: Mulloy, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 3:13 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: Hoffman, David Legal
Subject: Intel on OLPC
Dave,
Thanks for taking to time today to talk. Here is the Intel
position on the OLPC resignation. We are truly sorry we could not
find common ground on this.
Best
Chuck
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Intel and OLPC are in agreement on the need to provide children
around the world with new opportunities to explore experiment and
express themselves through the use of technology. However, Intel
and OLPC have reached a philosophical impasse and Intel is no
longer a member of OLPC.
OLPC, through its chairman Nicholas Negroponte, had asked Intel to
end its support for the non-OLPC platforms including the Intel
designed classmate PC and to focus its support exclusively on the
OLPC system the XO.
Intel concluded that it cannot accommodate the OLPC request for two
reasons: First Intel has long believed that there is no single
solution to the needs of children in emerging and underdeveloped
markets. We have always said there will be many solutions but the
most important priority is to serve the need. Secondly, if Intel
were to exclusively support the XO over other platforms it would
force us to abandon our relationships with many local OEMs,
suppliers and in some cases governments. Enabling a localized
solution in developing countries is a core value in Intel’s efforts
because it reaches beyond just the benefits for children to create
home grown businesses and entrepreneurship. We believe that the
more solution providers there are in this area the more quickly and
efficiently the benefits will spread.
It is unfortunate that after more than six months of discussion on
this key point we have been unable to reach any agreement and have
mutually elected to go our separate ways.
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