On 3/29/06, Jeremy Hogan <jeremy.hogan(a)gmail.com> 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