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

[Cherry Withers]

Not cool at all. If it's from the Contributor's Program then it's still
OLPC's property.

eKindling keeps track of inventory of laptops that we get from CP and serial
numbers are registered with the XS (let me confirm with Ryan if this was the
case for the 7 that he took home last November). I took home 12 XO 1.0 last
April, 7 are from the Contributor's Program and 5 are from individual
donors. I know that the teachers and students took all of them except for
2.  All of those laptops are now turned over to the Lubang Municipality to
be used for a lending library, training of the tech support, and spare (all
of those registered with the XS). I ended up taking Jerome's XO back to the
US (sorry Jerome).

This is most unfortunate.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:57 AM, 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
>
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