We have already tried your suggestion. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Terms_of_Use
That is why our plan is to increase capacity by being able to pay additional CMs to build the boards for us while still having the control over the whole process. The goal here is to find the right balance. Otherwise the community will lose every time. Gerald On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Venkat Bommakanti <[email protected]>wrote: > On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:20 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >> >> ... I would have no problem paying $75 for this board if we could >>> guarantee availibility and continued support (ie being able to stay in >>> business).... >>> >> > Have a feeling, even at an hiked up unit price of $75, the hoarders will > gobble them up in large #s, and pass the extra cost on to their customers - > after all, the free market price would also be $75. I doubt TI could > guarantee supplies even at that price - unless something is done to prevent > *productizers* from bulk-ordering huge quantities. > > TI supposedly released this board as a "community product" and should try > and pursue that goal and not just give up that easy. By hiking the price to > say $55/60, and through beaglebone.org, TI can allow for the purchase of > just a couple of boards to a given shipping address, it can be done since > the extra cost could be used to support this option... Many MIR promoters > do that today, not entirely impossible (even $60 ARM quad-core based board > manufactures do it - 1 per forum member/acct). So beagleboard can make it > say 2 or 3 or some reasonable small #. The hoarders can always buy from > those other distributors - whose stock-notification scheme is a mere joke. > 10mins into getting an email - they are back to 0-stock. > > Gerald, > > Pl. figure out a reasonably affordable scheme for the community and > another for market-driven scene, where folks are building products using > these, against all (practically legally non-enforceable) warnings. The > entire learning/maker community, imho, is being heavily penalized, for the > actions of a few hoarders. > > thanks. > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
