[TriLUG] Anyone catch 60minutes last night concerning the OLPC?

[Glenn Hennessee]

Intel is evil IF they are selling their computers at below cost, i.e. 
dumping. Dumping is a tactic used to put a rival out of business by 
selling below your manufacturing cost and cheaper than your rival. Once 
your rival goes out of business you can jack the price up and charge 
whatever you want. IF Intel isn't dumping then they aren't evil but 
simply trying to enter a new market and Negroponte needs to get over it.

glenn

Greg Brown wrote:
> So... Intel is evil for competing against OLPC?  How are they evil for
> offering a choice of software?  I'm a bit unclear on who is doing evil to
> whom.
> 
> On 5/21/07, Mike Shaw <mdshaw89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like Intel is the evil-doer in this story:
>>
>> http://olpc.tv/2007/05/21/60-minutes/
>>
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