On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Arokux X arokux@gmail.com wrote:
To tell the truth the EOMA project looses its "openness" in my opinion. It was first advertised to be an OSHW project. Then schematics of the EOMA68-A20 got closed. Then motivation for the pricing disappeared. I wonder what will happen next.
arokux: if people had come up with $10k to $20k at the beginning, or had helped contribute to creating the schematics and the PCB layout when i originally invited them to, or a thousand other things had happened, then what i *wanted* to happen right from the start - open hardware - would have happened.
as it turns out what i wanted to happen did not happen. so, that not having happened, i was forced to pursue other courses of action which would result in a successful business *such that*, after becoming financially independent, i might pursue the goals i have set out to achieve *without* having to be dependent on other people.
in short, i'm just as annoyed as you that the project has had to turn first into a commercial success *then* into an open hardware project. if that's the way it has to be to be a success i'll do what it takes.
oh - and btw: there's absolutely nothing stopping anyone *else* from implementing EOMA CPU Cards as Open Hardware Projects. it's an open standard, after all.
l.