That is, assuming you paid money for it. If you just copied someones open
source schematics . . . well then, you're own your own aren't you ?


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:11 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not only what John says, but if you have problems with a specific piece of
> hardware made by a specific person or entity. You really need to be
> demanding satisfaction from them. Not the open source community.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:12 PM, John Syne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> From: Terry Storm <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
>> Date: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant
>>
>>
>> A little birdy told me that Angstrom has been abandoned for the BBB ??
>>
>> If this is the case, and seems to be the case as there hasnt been an
>> update for the Angstrom image for the BBB for quite some time, and there
>> are still a number of issues with LCD CAPES which have not yet been
>> resolved...
>>
>> What is the 'new' standard distribution for the BBB going to be now?
>>
>> Us LCD CAPE users are having a hard time getting touch working reliably
>> for a wide range of LCD Capes on the market. I know most of us don't know
>> enough to fix problems ourselves or know what the problem is actually
>> caused by, and we don't know if anyone is working on these issues or if
>> they are being ignored or pass over, or if 'the people' who do know what is
>> going on just don't have time to look at them etc?
>>
>> Starting to really dislike this whole 'open' community based thing
>> especially when there are issues and no one wants to own them. These issues
>> have been reported for many months, and we are no further ahead.
>>
>> Hi Terry,
>> I think you are mistaken in treating this community as some sort of
>> commercial product support. Everyone here is a volunteer and give freely of
>> their own time to support users like yourself. I’m not sure that you will
>> get much help by demanding that works gets done. Also, the ARM based Linux
>> community went through dramatic changes (devicetree, display subsystem,
>> etc) since the V3.2 kernel and we are expecting things to settle down after
>> V3.12. There are users working on the issues your mentioned and I expect
>> that you will see many of these issues resolved in the next several weeks.
>> I just think you stepped into this at the wrong time. BTW, you are always
>> welcome to fix anything that is broken since everyone has access to the
>> same tools and source code; but you won’t be able to do that with
>> commercial software.
>> Regards,
>> John
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know of anyone who is working on the LCD CAPE touch issue
>> which is a problem on Angstrom (and maybe others which use the same
>> driver/source?)
>>
>> Terry
>>
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