On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Mark Haury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Manjos matt at manjos.com wrote on Sun Mar 16 16:23:09 CET 2008: > > >I think the main concern with FIC at the moment is that if they > >release the Freerunner developer-only hardware now, produced in 10x > >the quantity of the 1973 (what was hinted to earlier), and some major > >hardware problem was found, it could destroy the credibility and the > >resources of the project. I hate waiting like this, and I was hoping > >to get the Freerunner developer model for my birthday in a few weeks, > >but I'd much rather wait and have the guarantee that I won't be SOL if > >there is a problem with the function or the longevity of the device. > > Which is worse: the fear of possible failure, or certain failure? > > The fear of failure is usually self-fulfilling prophecy. > > Nothing ventured, nothing gained. > > If they're constantly going to give in to the fear of failure, then that > is certainly what's going > to happen. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
Buying each one of the 5 GTA02 hardware revisions, if they were sold to the public, would have cost me $2250 so far, not including shipping, taxes and customs/duty charges. Each one of those revisions fixed multiple hardware bugs, some of them very serious. "Certain failure" as you put it would be to release a piece of hardware that might burn out because of an obscure, improperly placed resistor or capacitor and making the community foot the bill every time a $450 hardware revision is produced. Perhaps waiting for this device feels longer BECAUSE of the openness of FIC's prototyping/development process. "Watching paint dry" I believe is the expression, as we see small, incremental changes instead of a large "splash". If FIC was closed and secretive as to the prototyping/testing process for their hard drive, and NO information was given as to a final release date, we wouldn't have anything to complain about. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
