On 3/29/06, Jeremy Hogan <jeremy.hogan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think it's a neat idea. Along the lines of what Magnatune does in allowing > you to pay back whatever you want the artist to have over the price. > > At the very least, you could have the media listed here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors > and explain that you were distributing some of what you could be charging > in mark-up back to the community that created it. Perhaps you could just > statically set the price such that for every purchased copy, another one was > available to Free Media or under the SponsoredMedia project, and make a > pretty simple and powerful move. You'd be able to fulfill the on demand > orders as an OnlineMedia provider, and spool up the donation fund to be able > to queue up, etc. I forget the pricing in your example, but IIRC you could > just set that as the price, and a $12 DVD would fetch a copy for the buyer > and another for free. > > Word would travel pretty fast in a one for one deal like that, and any other > vendor is still free to pony up support the way you have, and no one is > given special treatment. > > --jeremy This is getting *very* interesting. :) Question. Has anyone seen a video by Prof. Nicholas P. Negroponte who is leading a OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project? If you haven't, here is your chance: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/313/ In the video, he explains how this program works to bring down the initial cost of $100 to $90, $80, $50, $25 and eventually $0. Do you see my point? Do you see how this new project might be end up? :) Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
