> When I back multiple projects will the shipping charges be clubbed to the
maximum amount among them or charged separately?
for USA there's no shipping charge as we've taken that into account. for
outside of the USA, Crowd Supply, from their long experience, has an
estimated average based on weight and destinations world-wide. so we'll be
charged for total weight of the items, rather than by volume.
> Did you ever consider Olimex boards as alternative? They claim that as
OSHW.
NO.
you may not be aware that tsvetan was one of the first few people to join
arm-netbooks, because it was where you could get information about the
Allwinner A10. i worked to get the source code out of Allwinner, but there
were sections that were still GPL-violating at the time. over the next few
years people such as Henrik (linux-sunxi u-boot), and the people who now make
up the linux-sunxi community developers, worked just as hard to
reverse-engineer the remainder of the code.
i had already decided that i was not going to sell GPL-violating products,
and i told Allwinner as much - holding off release of the EOMA68-A10 Computer
Card (which later became the EOMA68-A20). now, i was surprised to learn that
Olimex had created their A10 board. and guess what? it contained a
GPL-violating bootloader and a GPL-violating linux kernel. this was fixed
*later* but it was already too late: Olimex had - and still have - lost their
right to distribute products with either u-boot or the linux kernel source
code.
now, when i pointed this out on the gpl-violations mailing list, he
attempted to divert the attention from himself with ridicule, claiming that
"how could I, who had never succeeded to release a product, tell him that he
was in the wrong?"
when he brought out the A64 laptop, he got a lot of flak for attempting to
sell a product that, once again, contained binary-only proprietary
components, many of them also GPL-violating at the time. when he was
questioned on his blog about this he wrote, "To be honest I really don't
understand all the fuss about these binaries, and I'm getting really fed up
with it". i wish i had taken a screenshot because two days later he'd taken
his response off the blog.
against this background, can you perhaps appreciate why i would not wish to
use or endorse Olimex products? tsvetan is interested in making money, and
he'll sacrifice ethical considerations to get it. i will not, because i know
that the cost of sacrificing ethics is far greater than *any* amount of money
that can be had for doing so.
