http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Board_Shipments
Gerald On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Micka <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't take it personally, I've nothing against you, or TI ... . You did a > great Job. > > Micka, > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
