I *think* that it is ending for the following reasons:<br><br>1.) Quanta can only make so many machines per month, and there is a backlog of orders for target nations.<br><br>2.) It is a a *lot* harder to ship 10,000 laptops to 10,000 people than 10,000 to one country. Selling laptops retail isn't the business that OLPC really needs to be in.
<br><br>3.) They need to stop G1G1 in the US and Canada so they can start to scale up for Europe and Asia G1G1 sales.<br><br>Good question, and not an intuitive answer. This belongs on the wiki somewhere.<br><br>Seth<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 28, 2007 8:00 AM, Josh Cogliati <<a href="mailto:jjcogliati-olpc@yahoo.com">jjcogliati-olpc@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Why is the give one get one program ending? The<br>program has brought millions of dollars of donations<br>to OLPC. As well it provides a good way to get<br>hardware if you are undecided on developing for the<br>machine. Plus it provides a price ceiling on ebay
<br>sales. So, why is the program ending?<br><br>Josh Cogliati<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Olpc-open mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org">Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org
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