[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC XO-1 being listed in TipidPC.com, hopefully not from Contributor's program

[Carlos Nazareno]

*frowns disapprovingly*

On 1/13/11, Marife Mago <marife.mago at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jerome,
>
> I hope this is not.. this is not good not only for the cause but for us
> Filipinos.  We have a couple of contributors program that's been approved
> and never heard about them.
>
> Do you have a way of exploring this? Just to find out...the quote 'I bought
> it  from a former OLPC pinoy developer' we don't have much XO floating
> around aside from the Contributors Program...well not that I know of.
>
> Thanks for bringing this up.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, jgotangco at gmail.com
> <jgotangco at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> http://tipidpc.com/viewitem.php?iid=8325286
>>
>>
>> The listing said: "hard to find collector's item. i bought it from a
>> former OLPC pinoy developer last December 2010."
>>
>> I hope this is not a unit that came from the Contributor's Program.
>> Even if this is an old XO-1 unit, the Contributor's Program is built
>> on trust and contribution. Therefore it is not ethical to sell
>> something that was entrusted to the recipient with the hope that the
>> free laptop program will result into something good.
>>
>>
>> Jerome G.
>> http://gotangco.com
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>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> @marife
>
> mmago at ekindling.org
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