[Arm-netbook] vivaldi-engineering ML? (Was: Need help finding components in China)

[joem]

On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 10:06 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:51 AM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:40 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 23:55 +0200, David Lanzendörfer wrote:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> > Where is this list located? I can't find any pointers to it after 7 min
> >>>> > of googleing and checking the vivaldi website and kde list server.
> >>>> Oh. It was just a hint to luke.
> >>>> It's a private mailinglist for the core developers of the project.
> >>>> It's closed because, although the final device is intended to be shipped
> >>>> together with the schematics, we don't want the whole design to be known
> >>>> before we get to production.
> >>>> Otherwise someone else could just produce it
> >>>
> >>> Isn't that the whole idea?
> >>
> >>  not when the engineering cost has been $20k
> >
> > clarification: up-front, CASH, $20k engineering cost.
> 
>  that's cash - up-front - and then someone else comes along, produces
> it, and THEY get all the profit?
> 
>  i don't think so.
> 
>  if you know of a solution, i want to hear it, because i want GPL
> hardware out there just as much as you do.


To complicated for me to answer alone.
The positive things are:
I will fund bits of an open sourced vivaldi (such as making boards).
Around 1k spread between active projects per month is my limit.