[Arm-netbook] $250 Dev Kit

[Philip Hands]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:30:15 +0000, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> > Alejandro Mery wrote:
> >> First of all, thank you Tom! you are amazing!
> >>
> >> I just replied Eva telling her that I am buying one for the $250, and
> >> asking how to pay it.
> >>
> >> This is the brochure I got from her before http://goo.gl/T2fQu if
> >> anyone else wants to see what's in the kit.
> >
> > That looks really nice. I'd love to work on this, but for the next month
> > I'm unlikely to have the time - I have to get the RedSleeve beta (RHEL6
> > port) out for public testing. After that, however, I'll be looking to
> > put together kernels for as many ARM systems as I can for it, so at that
> > point getting one of these would be really handy - assuming Allwinner
> > want a clone of RedHat Enterprise running on it (since RedHat don't have
> > a port of their own for ARM).
> 
>  so, you'll be doing something that's of benefit to them (but you
> don't need the schematics to do it).
> 
>  the question you need to ask yourself is, therefore: why would you
> want to _pay_ allwinner to get something done that _they_ will benefit
> from, rather than the other way round? :)

You have a good point there actually -- back in the day when people
still used faxes, I used to maintain mgetty for Debian, and USRobotics
would send me their new models to test for free.

Its about time one or two of the hardware manufacturers woke up to the
fact that they could get a market advantage by doing the same, although
reading Mathew Garret's recent missives on the supposed economic benefit
of GPL violation, perhaps I'm deluded.  It would be nice to prove him wrong.

Cheers, Phil.
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