XO Korea/consortium/business support

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Summary

It's to support open source business entities working on XO. A half of the shares of those business entities (corporations) shall be owned by olpc Korea or an equivalent organization, and the other half shall be owned by a participating company.

The peculiar features of those open source companies includes;

  • all information and technologies will be disclosed transparently
  • half of the profits earned will be used for public goodness
  • controlled and supported by open source societies worldwide

olpc Korea expects there will be more than 150,000 independent open source corporations in Korea till 2010.

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