[WikiReader] Giving, and last chance to get?

[Doug Jones]

I just got an email from Sean recommending this:

http://igg.me/at/wikireaders4kids/x/3095893

It's a non-profit campaign to give WikiReaders to thousands of kids. 
Sean is supporting the project, and is helping the organizers to get the 
best possible purchase price.

I am signing up too.  Very laudable goals.

But reading between the lines, this looks like it may represent the 
end-of-life for this excellent OpenMoko device.  If the hardware 
manufacturer has 10,000 units in overstock, of a product that was 
released years ago, then they may not be interested in ever making any 
more of these.  And if the wikireaders4kids campaign succeeds, all 
existing stock may vanish from the marketplace.

So this may be your last opportunity to buy a WikiReader (although I 
expect used ones may be available for a long time).  You can get them by 
pledging to that campaign, or for $14.99 on Amazon, or other places as 
mentioned at the bottom of this page:

http://www.thewikireader.com/

I also see that new content has recently become available for the 
WikiReader:

http://thewikireader.com/languagepacks.php

I see that the codebase is still being actively updated:

https://github.com/wikireader/wikireader

I think it would be a shame if this beautiful machine really does go out 
of manufacture, never to be updated again.  Wouldn't it be great if this 
design could be released as open hardware...