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Category:Microsoft Category:OLPC Category:Charity 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

  • The Gates Press (GatesGate) — Part I: Lost the Job After Writing an Article Critical of Bill Gates for Attacking Some Actual, Legitimate Charities (Because They Had Spread GNU/Linux)