I've been following this saga for awhile. I feel sorry for them. The best analogy is to liken it to a slow motion car wreck. The Kickstarter comments thread rea

I've been following this saga for awhile. I feel sorry for them. The best analogy is to liken it to a slow motion car wreck. The Kickstarter comments thread reads like an instructional manual on how to make your customers hate you. The average backers perception is that most of their time is spent doing damage control for not being able to deliver on their promises by shifting the blame to Intel for stopping development of Intel-IA. They should take ownership for fucking up. Blaming Intel is the last thing they should be doing. What does Intel have to do with it? Nothing, of course. Their dependency on Intel doing the work certainly wasn't mentioned in the Kickstarter's Risks and Challenges. In a way I'd like to help them, but all their business decisions are just so awful that you just can't help but stand back and watch it unfold through the splayed fingers of a facepalm. I think they will somehow decline this offer, even though it will/would be a terrible mistake to turn it down. This should be a good lesson to founders. You can't just punch up a menu of stuff you want, claim it's mostly done and then fail when the going gets tough. If you are telling the market you can deliver it, you need to be able to deliver it.