The part that says does not TI invests $$$$ into the operation of BeagleBord.org other than some of my day job and none of my time I spend on it in my personal time and weekends, the other 80 hours of my work week.
Gerald On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Micka <[email protected]> wrote: > TI has nothing to do with beagleboard.org but Gerald Coley is a TI > Engineer ? > > > Which part I didn't understand ? > > > Micka, > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Anders <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Venkat, >> >> >> On Monday, March 17, 2014 4:36:42 PM UTC-5, Venkat Bommakanti 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. >>> >>> >> just a clarification here: TI has nothing to do with beagleboard.orgother >> than sell circuitco the processors to be used on >> beagleboard.org products >> >> http://beagleboard.org/about >> >> Dave >> >> >>> 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. > -- 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.
