[Arm-netbook] Should we support libre.computer's efforts at promoting lima?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:46 AM Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are dozens of arm sbs right now that are crippled mainly due to Mali
> graphics. A lot of them would be very useful for stuff that e.g. the rpi
> doesn't do like cheap nas. Just saying.

 yes, i agree.   the thing is... *sigh*... percentage-wise, the people
you're referring to (those that would actually put arm SBCs to
different purposes) are an absolutely tiny fraction of the overall
market.  an important *strategic* fraction, nonetheless.

 the lesson there is one from HTC's products absolutely tanking after
they neglected to listen to a tiny vocal minority on strategic
(high-prominence) forums like xda-developers.com.  when going to "buy
product", anyone *not* technical of course does a google search.  if
the high-ranking google pages, not controlled by HTC, are filled with
complaints "this product is shit!  it doesn't have a keyboard like our
favourite predecessor does!!!" then the non-techies aren't gonna
buy...

 and it's the same here.  so... yes, reverse-engineering MALI will
have a much larger strategic impact on purchases of ARM-based products
than people realise...

 and that's what deeply concerns me: by raising USD $1m, this campaign
is empowering ARM to continue in their highly and deeply unethical
behaviour, such as fucking with libv's livelihood.

l.