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

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:39 AM EDT
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Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world's poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it...

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