aloniv: Regarding printer cartridges: the printer price is usually not really
important as the user spends most of the money on cartridges.
Comment: I know this, you know this, but not everybody prints enough to care.
What they do pay attention to is the price and that it'll work with the
system they have. That makes offering a better more expensive (up front at
least) model difficult. Again... it'll happen in time. Some of this is going
to get fixed once we have the new web site done. Until then there are many
many other important issues I'll be working on. Like sourcing product. Trying
source is actually a big issue. Chipsets get discontinued and you can't get
them any more.. then what? Without that how well the site works doesn't
really matter.
Coreboot is a project we would like to do. It's not going to happen for a
long while. The issue is it is a non-trivial task to port coreboot from one
system to another. The amount of time these systems are on the market is too
short to pay for the cost of porting coreboot. The demand has to rise before
a coreboot port will happen. Working on aspects that will increase demand is
a top priority. This is largely a marketing issue and not a product issue.
The only product part of this is being able to source the product. Something
we have trouble doing in a lot of cases due to discontinued chipsets.
