The discussion of this has probably been the longest thread on this board. My understanding is that it boils down to two things:
1) The BB was designed and intended as a development board and for hobbyists, not as a commercial product. It's reliability level is more than adequate, but BeagleBoard.org can't stand behind, guarantee, or endorse it for a use that was not intended. 2) If you, as an oem, order thousands of boards rather than manufacturing your own from the freely published design, you are restricting the availability of boards to hobbyists and other developers. The hope was to provide small numbers of boards to many people and organizations rather than many boards to a small number of people and organizations. High volume commercial use works against this. Having said that, there are commercial users who require too few boards to economically manufacture themselves (dozens or hundreds), and who do purchase in those quantities and use them in commercial products. Should they? I suspect if supply were unlimited no one would care much one way or the other, but at times it has been tight. How many is too many? Your call. On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:32:24 AM UTC-7, sufi al hussaini wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Just wanted to ask about this. I have read this at more than one place, > but I couldn't understand the reason behind it. > Why shouldn't I use BBB in commercial products? Or why isn't it encouraged? > > Does it have something to do with over all system stability and other > technical issues? Or is it simply because BBB production is lagging behind > demand? > > Regards, > Zaxter. > -- 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.
