[Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

>  i'm not letting you off the hook here after you said that EOMA68's
> interfaces are "crippled", peter.

ok, so can you see what i did, peter?  you laid down a challenge (to
do better)... and after three days, you've not responded.  you
*provisionally* described an alternative standard... but did not
follow through.

 *that's* what makes the difference, here.  it's *not enough* to say
"the standard you came up with is rubbish", you have to *follow
through*, and if you can't follow through then it's.... you know what
i'm trying to say?

 what you *should* have said, is:

 "i appreciate all the hard work and persistence that you've shown,
luke, and how comprehensively you've worked on designing EOMA68,
making tough decisions and comprehensive evaluations that, each time
you removed an interface you had to throw away thousands of dollars of
money and you also made sure that you kept everybody informed,
solicited people for ideas and reviews of each decision, and i *do*
recall you saying that this is just the first standard in the series
and that you're deliberately creating one which is 'within reach' of a
libre engineer *and* uses SoCs that are actually accessible rather
than being cartelled or require NDAs and much more, BUT...."

 ... and *then* went into "i still feel that the EOMA68 interfaces are
crippled", i would have gone, "yeahh, i know... tell you what: i would
really like to design the next standard for a future Card, how about
we start that now?"

... which would have been a _much_ less confrontational way to
introduce the topic you wanted, wouldn't it?

ehn?

*rueful*....

l.