[Arm-netbook] Why Free hardware fails

[Xavi Drudis Ferran]

El Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 08:20:14PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) deia:
> On 08/25/2016 05:29 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >  1846 and climing (yay!)  just looking at the numbers it's 1450 actual
> > unique backers.  which is awesome.
> > 
> 
> Unique orders or really unique backers, as in unique delivery addresses?
> I have placed new orders when I thought of new uses for another card
> (e.g. running a web/mail server from home). (Since you said you’d ship
> them separately, I don’t think it matters for shipping; it’s just
> surprising so many people ordered a card without case/cables/breakout
> board/…)
>

Well, now there are 463 pledges for $5 "support EOMA-68" donations. 
One backer can pledge seeral of those, but there are also 
rewards for 15 or 30 or 35, so possibly not many. 

For the rest, yes, it's hard o imagine pledging only for one item. 
Although maybe one card alone might make sense if people already 
has the cables or wants to make them tehmselves or buy them locally
or elsewhere. 

> Sadly I presume only cost savings and perhaps modular computing are
> convincing to typical government organizations. They are legally bound
> to save costs, but most officials presumably are not used to considering
> backdoors a relevant problem and not easy to convince that EOMA68 is the
> right solution.
>

I don't deny this, but what it's harder to believe for me is that a 
government organization buys in a crowfunding campaign. So this may 
come soon, but not yet.