<html><head></head><body>Its not really a problem, since the funds are basically from strong arming manufacturers with "royalties" and EOMA68 so far has been an ethical project. Indeed a logo is a brilliant idea, and use of it only by certified products would be excellent. I think also you should be prepared for Chinese clones, they'll definitely happen, the question is whether you'll make it easy for them to be proper ones. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 10, 2017 12:19:31 PM GMT+03:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">---<br />crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68">https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68</a><br /><br /><br />On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:50:24AM +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Indeed there is no need for royalties, and the lack of it is worth advertising and will grab attention.<br /> I also think you should advertise the low power of the standard that's a big plus.<br /></blockquote><br /> Which exposes one of the problems that Open Source/Spec/... projects have<br /> compared to Closed ones. Things like royalties do provide cash for things like<br /> marketing.<br /></blockquote><br /> true<br /><br /><hr /><br />arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk<br /><a href="http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook">http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook</a><br />Send large attachments to arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk</pre></blockquote></div><br>
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