On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:32 AM, luke.leighton luke.leighton@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:38 PM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
:if people had come up with $10k to $20k at the beginning,
Nobody owes open source projects a living.
i know. i just wanted to make sure that people are aware that they were given the opportunity to make this an open hardware project right from the start. that they did not do so means that they have absolutely no right to complain when i am forced to pursue other means to fulfil the goal.
joe, please allow me to be blunt and absolutely clear: please do not accuse me of poverty-level thinking on this list again.
... by contrast you're more than welcome to tell me privately.
i think it's time i made clear what the process is that i've followed up to this point. i've invited people to participate in open hardware product development. that has not happened. so i have had to push forward, finding creative ways to lower the barrier to entry. i will keep on pushing, and i will keep on finding ways to lower the barrier so that the project takes off. that's now *just* about to happen.
however what i *do not* want to end up doing is overstepping the mark, taking opportunities away from people which they would otherwise both learn and profit from. so there is a balancing act that i have to consider, and it's why i work in the open, to let people know what's going on, invite them to participate at every phase. if they prove self-sufficient i am happy to let them get on with it, however if nobody joins in and that step happens to be a critical step then i will get that task completed in any way that i am able.
so. arokux. PLEASE LISTEN: the goal is, always has been and always will be to make open hardware possible in the *very* unusual context of joining that with mass-volume factory production. it's a very odd mixture that has never been done before.
and - arokux, you've seen this: http://git.rhombus-tech.net/?p=eoma.git;a=tree;f=pcb/allwinner_a10/pcmcia
it's the full - completed - schematics for an open hardware EOMA68-A10/20 CPU Card. that was released over 22 months ago.
anyway. can we move on now, please?
l.