I'm sorry, that last post really read like an advertisement. The Nanonote, as sold by Sharism, one of the official partners of Qi-Hardware, sells the device for about 99 dollars American. Tuxbrain sells them for quite a bit more for some reason.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Rafael Ignacio Zurita < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:38:40PM -0500, George wrote: > > Open hardware, open source, open market. > > Is that so like that? > Nanonote is not open hardware 100% (warning note: I am not completely sure > about this: > what is 100% open hardware?, but IIRC you can not make nanonote units > easily). > You need to buy them from the company who makes it and try to open it 100% > yet. > So open market is not so easy either. WEll, you can buy many nanonotes > paying > around 90 euros, and then sell them 90 USD, that is possible and open. But > maybe you do not earn a lot of money. :P > > For me, open hardware and open source mean, in this case, in an open > platform > great to contribute with software and some hardware adds (like atben, > atusb, > ubb, serial stuff, etc). Make a community around them. Improve the stuff > from your place. > > But this kind of electronic devices are not so useful for open market (if > you > want to get money selling them), whatever open market means. > > I would love to see the nanonote, M1, or any other product from this open > hw/sw > community with the succes which ORSAI magazine has : > > http://editorialorsai.com/ > > Check the youtube video. Sorry, in spanish only. BUt this magazine and this > video is the most amazing open thing, with a huge community around it, > which > succeded from 2011. The magazine is expensive, no advertising in it, huge > as a book, > high quality, no editors or companies between the people who make the > magazine > and the community who buy it. All the writers and artists who wrote and > painted > for the magazine got their payments. And they sold 10.000 of #1 before they > printed those. There were 4 numbers in 2011. They sold all the printed > magazines > during last year. And the ORSAI people do exactly the opposite to the > magazines/movies/music industry say/force to do. > > Rafa > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:22 PM, James "Xakh" Lynch > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > From what I've seen, the tuxbrain price is actually quite expensive, > 100 > > > euros as opposed to the 99 usd sharism charges, 94 seems fairly > reasonable > > > knowing sharism's. > > > On Feb 9, 2012 3:13 AM, "Christoph Pulster" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> Seller "Freedom Included Inc" sells for USD 94 incl. shipping. > > >> Is this Sharism itself ? > > >> > > >> As a reseller it is very hard to compete with this dumping price. > > >> It is below my buy price from distributor Tuxbrain. > > >> This is not good for the Qi project. > > >> > > >> Christoph > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Qi Hardware Discussion List > > >> Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > > >> Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > > >> http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Qi Hardware Discussion List > > > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > > > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > > > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qi Hardware Discussion List > > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
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