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Your outrage seems misplaced. People are excited to have an open platform to play with, that is not trapped in some form of digital garden. Many people contrib
by DoingIsLearning 5y ago
Your outrage seems misplaced. People are excited to have an open platform to play with, that is not trapped in some form of digital garden.
Many people contribute to mainline and to distros because they believe in those projects, no-one expects that these projects co-finance their hardware.
People will spend a lot more money than 400$ in other things, this is how they choose to spend both their money and time.
- CameronNemo 5y agoI don't feel trapped by kobo/nxp: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Kobo_Clara_HD_(kobo-clara) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Kobo_Clara_HD_(kobo-clara...
- agentultra 5y agoSorry, not outraged just genuinely confused what the draw is here for folks and what Pine's plans are for the "open source community." Will they eventually release a consumer version that packages up all of the software other folks have written on their own dime? Or do they only release these as developer kits?
- DoingIsLearning 5y ago> Will they eventually release a consumer version that packages up all of the software other folks have written on their own dime? That has been the Pine M.O. for their product line. The PineBook was a 'developer' release about 4 years ago. Now it is sold commercially as a full fledge ARM laptop. The PineTime has now reached a stable hardware but still under SW development and the PineNote is I think the first HW revision that they are shipping.