AFAIK The Investment of ZYXWARE friends was Volunteering on Software Design & Building Kiosk + painting it + around 25K for Hardware .
I am ccing Anoop john. Also see the page http://freedomtoaster.in/content/need-toaster
I personally feel, it is good if we get some banks to supporting the project to install Freedom Toaster in IT Parks & Colleges with a Debit/Credit card payment facility. Free Software is anyway not Free Meal
Today, at the FSUG Thrissur event, there was very good demand for GNU/Linux CD's - many people came asking for multiple distro's and the volunteers were kept busy burning DVD's. I think people have a genuine problem getting hold of GNU/Linux CD's/DVD's - and efforts like the Freedom toaster may help, if scaled up to the proper extend.
Regards, Pramode http://pramode.net