Stephen Boddy wrote:
Intel resigns from the OLPC project less than 6 months after joining. The CTO from Intel resigned last week to make a commercial profit for the chip that powers the platform. More news on the venture at Slashdot.com. See http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/04/0520254.
"It's the latest blow to the OLPC, whose CTO quit earlier this week to launch a for-profit company to commercialize her OLPC inventions."
I don't see it as a blow at all. I suspect they are better off without Intel. Intel was only there to serve their own interests, not the interests of OLPC. I don't see the seeing leaving as bad news either. She is going to commercialize the technologies invented for OLPC. That can only improve the OLPC and drive the cost of things down which is something they really need. Already hundreds of thousands of OLPC's have been bought and paid for (including my own which I will have at the next KPLUG meeting) so I think the OLPC project is moving along very nicely.
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