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

[Vladimir Pantelic]

On 05/28/2012 12:23 PM, lkcl luke wrote:

> 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.
...
> violations across International Boundaries.  also, you have to bear in
> mind that we are working with a large PRC State-Sponsored company who
> supply governments and schools with hardware.  if the safety of their
> products are threatened because of some idiot no-name chinese
> manufacturer, do you think they'll stand by and let it happen?
...
>   the scope and scale of this project is really, really large.  i
> haven't mentioned much about it, mostly because it's *confidential* but
> also mostly because if i actually described what's going on and what's
> involved there's a risk that many people simply wouldn't believe it.
> contact with PRC State-Sponsored companies normally don't just
> "happen", and we're unbelievably lucky to have the opportunity.
...

As a rather passive onlooker so far, I have to admit that by my book
this *is* cloak and dagger.

 > which
> is why i'm rather annoyed at the way things have been going recently.
> oh well.

Annoyed that a supposedly "open hardware" project with a hidden agenda,
patents and a "large" PRC company behind it is not going as planned?