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Today’s Lesson: Do Not F*** with the Negroponte Brothers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 13, 2008

“In light of the bush-league behavior of Intel in undercutting
OLPC’s education project with the meritless ‘Classmate PC,’ I read
this morning with schadenfreude that the New York State
attorney general is going after Intel…

“While the article does not mention OLPC at all, and while AMD
has been pursuing lawsuits against Intel for anti-competitive
practices in other locales for several years now, the chance seems
remote to me that this new heat on the gorilla chip-maker is not
directly connected to Intel’s bullying of John Negroponte’s little
brother, Nicholas…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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