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I will be very interested in this when they have a "give money, get laptop" situation set up. I'm glad to see more open hardware and software in the wild. But
by Endy 7y ago
I will be very interested in this when they have a "give money, get laptop" situation set up. I'm glad to see more open hardware and software in the wild.
But you'll have to excuse my skepticism as long as they need to run a fundraiser to get even the basic product together, let alone getting said product to market at a reasonable price for what it is.
- baybal2 7y agoEven that is not the end line. I knew a number of companies that had a Waterloo moments after very successful kickstarter campaigns with PCs and smarthones. Seeing a company making $1m+ on kickstarter, successfully delivering, and then committing big to mass manufacturing only to see single digit orders per day is something I see often in Shenzhen
- Endy 7y agoOh, certainly. But when it comes to advocating for free software (and free hardware to run it on), the end line is nothing less than the end of proprietary software. I'm not worried about reaching the end goal today, just taking a stride. My feeling is that if they can get to a situation where for, say, $200USD (or thereabouts), I can purchase their hardware with free software loaded on it and be relatively confident that it will arrive in working order, then I'm a happy camper. And I'll stand by that even if they can't remain in business after that point; because I will have gotten the machine I paid for. Until I can exchange currency for goods, it's just vaporware with an ideal attached.