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== Other gifts ==
== Other gifts ==


* The OLPC as an e-book reader (possibly without a keyboard and only e-book software). The retail price of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle Kindle] is $399, which could pay for a second OLPC (as in [[G1G1]]).
* The OLPC watch - for people who like to look at their "watch" at others with great care. ([[G1G1]]: get one watch, give one laptop)
* The OLPC watch - for people who like to look at their "watch" at others with great care. ([[G1G1]]: get one watch, give one laptop)
* The Wikibooks [http://www.puzzleball.info/ puzzleball] showing children with XO laptops and a Wikibooks and/or OLPC logo.
* The Wikibooks [http://www.puzzleball.info/ puzzleball] showing children with XO laptops and a Wikibooks and/or OLPC logo.

Revision as of 12:09, 6 April 2008

An OLPC Shop could sell a collection of gifts with a low to medium production cost but a very significant donation component under a protected brand.

Obviously the OLPC Shop should be a certified OLPC fundraiser.

Goodgifts

Other gifts

  • The OLPC as an e-book reader (possibly without a keyboard and only e-book software). The retail price of the Kindle is $399, which could pay for a second OLPC (as in G1G1).
  • The OLPC watch - for people who like to look at their "watch" at others with great care. (G1G1: get one watch, give one laptop)
  • The Wikibooks puzzleball showing children with XO laptops and a Wikibooks and/or OLPC logo.
  • One could cooperate with LimeWire and allow artists to sell their music through the software, e.g. with 50% going into the Special Laptop Program. (A very plausible connection between "music" and music, one could say, which is also in line with the view that "replicators" [1] should be charities.) Artists could be given the choice to use DRM or to ask for payment in exchange for a "valid ownership tag" in the file, which would be playable without the tag. [2]
See also: Charityware/CSL#Electronic Publishing Charity Source License (EPCSL)

External links

  • bookzilla.de donates the commission (5%) for books bought through the site to the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe).



  1. ^  A badly defined term, of course, and just a view, not the view of anybody specific.
  2. ^  The German band BAP has made a song available for WorldVision [Noh Gulu], The German Red Cross distributes a free CD every year before christmas [herzen oeffnen], together with a money transfer order for donations.