Gerald, I find this very interesting. So given the barebones target price of $45, it seems Marketting and Sales have failed on the BBB totally, as if 100K BBB's have been sold now and Circuitco is breakeven and Beagleboard.org doesnt make anything, then to me it sounds like the project was/is a flop. Hardware is great, but its crap if nothing runs on it out of the box.
I have 2 BBB's which gather dust at this moment, along with 4 Capes, of which I personally can do nothing about. I would have to spend years learning from nothing in order to do anything productive to get anywhere even close to trying to fix the problems I personally care about. Its not about me personally not putting in the effort to learn Linux, its about capability, and I am not capable. If Koen was the only developer on this thing, I imagine he has a fairly impressive CV regarding linux etc, so myself in comparison is N/A, and I imagine that is the case for 90% of users out there. Mutter Mutter. So peoples comments about everyone else not putting in the effort to learn and fix themselves, I find irrelevant, as not everyone is capable of doing this work. Its like trying to get a truck driver to design a bridge across some massive canyon. I agree with what was said above, I would have happily paid $50 for a BBB if it meant it actually works software wise. What has happened is essentially like 'Acme Computers' brought processors off 'Beta Processors Ltd' and used 'Gigasoft OS' as their OS, sold 100K computers to the public and said it does xyz, but it turns out it doesn't work as people expected, and actually requires customer to learn how to modify said Gigasoft OS themselves in order to get the hardware working correctly before they even start the development of their software which they are to then sell to make a profit themselves. Crazy. Would hate to think of the number of customers who are pissed off at the situation. Would be interesting to see the number of customers who use their share of the 100K of BBB's too. I would imagine a large number purchased, couldn't do much, so have put them in the cupboard and are either waiting for a stable OS or have moved on, or given up etc. Still cant believe the breakeven after 100K. Terry. On Tuesday, 31 December 2013 09:52:52 UTC+13, Gerald wrote: > > Circuitco, breaks even, barely. Beagleboard.org makes no money at all. > > TI, well they make a little of the chips, but provides no funding for > BeagleBoard.org. > > Anyone willing to donate some funds so we can fund some SW developers? > > Gerald > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
