Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Hi

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4472654.ece

"Negroponte had also hooked a spectacular range of backers: Red Hat, 
Google, AMD, Brightstar and News Corporation (the parent company of The 
Sunday Times). These each contributed $2m upfront and then a further 
$500,000. All the companies put in money as sponsorship rather than 
investment"

"Microsoft may have used words and a refusal to co-operate as its 
weapons against the XO; Intel used brute force. The company dominates 
global computer hardware in the way that Microsoft dominates the 
software. And, like Microsoft, it is a fierce protector of its ascendancy. "

Rahul