[Arm-netbook] Article on zdnet.com

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Nick Hardiman
<nick at internetmachines.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 9 Aug 2016, at 14:17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:25 AM, m016fec3 <hier at wolfgangromey.de> wrote:
>>> Have you seen this?
>>>
>>> http://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-an-open-source-pc-that-can-be-a-laptop-desktop-or-even-tablet/
>>
>> yehh i did - it's one where there's quite a lot of mistakes, so i'm
>> leaving it off the crowd-funding campaign front page but it will be
>> going on the list.
>
> ZDnet is a high-profile site. Probably more people looking at that than at all the other sites added together.

 surprisingly, it's had very little effect - i've been keeping an eye
on things.  slashdot was very effective, so was boingboing.  reddit's
been fun.  ycombinator - hardly a peep.  heise.de - *really*
effective.


> Still, if you can’t use that, maybe you can work something like this in, to back up the code transparency argument.
>
> 18% of American households believe data collection by government is a major concern.

 mmm... although it works i'd prefer not to be using the "fear"
argument.  i'd much rather use a "free from worry and stress"
argument, although it's a very subtle difference.

l.