Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

[luke . leighton]

the standard helps take away some of the enormous cost (in time and money) so  
that people can work on things for a long time then upgrade them later...  
*WITHOUT* needing to throw away absolutely everything they've done because  
it's now "too slow" if they did it as a Single-Board Computer.  you still  
however need to have some electronics engineering experience :)