[Arm-netbook] R-Pi Only Better and More Available?

[Tsvetan Usunov - OLIMEX Ltd]

>
>  a) protection from people fucking up the EOMA initiative by being
> either plain fucking incompetent or DELIBERATELY releasing
> electrically incompatible products that cause short-circuits,
> potentially resulting in fires and death, let alone destroying both
> their own market as well as ours by causing people to be too afraid to
> buy products that might not work or worse might even kill them.
>
>
Beagle Bone solved this pretty simple by stating this in their user manual:

"THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE DESIGN
MATERIALS, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE
STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE DESIGN
MATERIALS “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE
ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE DESIGN MATERIALS IS
WITH YOU. SHOULD THE DESIGN MATERIALS
PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR
CORRECTION."

without need to patent their open source design
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