●●● From Techrights
This page contains a listing of key posts about OLPC, an initiative whose aim was to give a Free computer to each child. There are more posts on the subject in the OLPC category.
●● 2006
(Sorta Small) Laptop with Windows, Word and Excel: $259(US)
●● 2007
Patent Trolls, Intel and Microsoft Betray the Children
One Patent Per Child, One Standard Per Village
●● 2008
Junk Patents Versus Charity (Another Case for a Reform)
Patents Versus Society (and That Intel-OLPC Story)
An Update on the OLPC Story: Intel, Microsoft and Money Games
Intel Sabotages Linux-based OLPC, Microsoft Wants to Hijack OLPC (with Windows)
Intel’s Corruptions Against Linux-run OLPC Reach New Heights
Attack/Shoot the Messenger Strategy: Thy Name is Intel, Microsoft, Novell, GNOME
It’s Not Dumping Because They Call it “Charity”
Nicholas Negroponte Should Join Hands with Larry Lessig, Not with Bill Gates
Leaked Memo Reveals Microsoft’s Latest Anti-GNU/Linux Moves
Antitrust Concerns Over Microsoft’s Dumping Techniques Against GNU/Linux
Recommended Readings: OLPC and Microsoft’s Financial Games
Competing by Crippling a Competitor’s Product
How Microsoft and Intel Conspired Against the GNU/Linux/AMD Laptops
‘Addiction’ Battles for Microsoft in China and Africa
It’s Not Bribery If It’s Just “Marketing Help”
First They Ignore… Then They Dump… Then They ‘Bribe’
IDG/IDC Does Microsoft’s Revisionism to Deny Crimes
A Gradual Fall of W|Intel… Thanks to OLPC?
●● 2009
Did Microsoft Scheme Financial Strangulations Against OLPC? (Updated: As Text)
Quick Mention: Microsoft’s OLPC is About Selfishness, Gain, Neither Children Nor Education
Can OLPC Commit Just to Free(dom) Software Again?
How OLPC Failed Where Industry Succeeded with GNU/Linux
Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher Versus OLPC
Microsoft Embracing, Extending, and Extinguishing Sub-notebooks
Microsoft .NET Tries to Piggyback OLPC, Novell Helps the Same Cause
GNU/Linux Was Never a Problem for OLPC, Claims Technical OLPC Staff
Nicholas Negroponte Blames “Giants Who View Children As a Market”
Microsoft and the OLPC Strategy, as Interpreted by a Reader
EDGI Executive from Microsoft and His Conflicts of Interests
New Information About Intel’s Attack on OLPC, Bill Gates Hijacks the Educational Systems
Even During Christmas, the Multiple-times Convicted Monopolists Spur Attacks on OLPC Charity
●● 2010
Paid Microsoft Slug Michael Gartenberg Does the OLPC Slog
●● 2012
The Economist Throws FUD at OLPC Again
Intel and Microsoft Launch Anti-Linux Attacks, Similar to OLPC Attack
●● 2020
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