OLPC

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