On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM, zap <[email protected]> wrote: >> in other words: when you add up the amount of time and effort >> proposed to be spent, and convert it to an actual dollar amount, i >> estimate that it would come to an amount that would EASILY fund the >> development of an entirely new type of computer. >> >> one that can be designed to be repaired, upgraded, respect software >> freedom and not end up in landfill. >> >> ... .yeh? > You are correct, and I wish I had realized this a lot sooner. My bad...
yyehh i've been down this evaluation path a number of times now on this list, with different groups of people at different times. it... kinda puts a dampener on peoples' enthusiasm for doing home-grown "hackaday" style projects... but... hackaday projects are for people to learn (and teach other people) electronics. this project is *specifically* about reducing *world-wide* e-waste on a *massive* scale by making desirable long-term upgradeable computing appliances, thus keeping stuff out of landfill as long as possible... and that *has* to be done not by disassembling pre-existing deeply flawed "Designed for Obsolescence and Manufacture" products but by going *right* back to the very source of the problem. totally different approach that's really hard for some people to understand or accept, the scale is about a hundred thousand times larger than they're able to get their minds around. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
