Micka,
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:32:58 AM UTC-5, Mickae1 wrote: > > Don't take it personally, I've nothing against you, or TI ... . You did a > great Job. > > and circuitco too.... since we've been part of beagleboard.org from day one, investing our own money on prototypes, development, as well as taking all the risk in investing money to make this happen... Dave > Micka, > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Coley > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > 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] >> <javascript:>>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]<javascript:> >>> > 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] <javascript:>. >>>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
