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Serving the disaster market is pretty awful. There's little to no money available until something goes wrong, then there's a ton of money and everything is pur
by Qworg 14y ago
Serving the disaster market is pretty awful. There's little to no money available until something goes wrong, then there's a ton of money and everything is purchased in 5 days.
You have to have enough capital to be able to wait until something bad happens as well as enough inventory to service all the requests when the disaster occurs.
- nathan_f77 14y agoI personally think 'disaster market' is a terrible way to refer to people in need. I realize that business is business, but they could also release it as open-source, or set up something like the Raspberry Pi non-profit. Some people do want to help the world, even if there's little to no money available.
- Qworg 14y agoIt still costs money to design and build this equipment, sadly. "Helping the world" can't feed your family. =/ Raspberry Pi non-profit is awesome - but they made a very low cost, very versatile product. This is so unlike disaster equipment as to be impossible to their firm design.