In its latest email, think penguin says, it will not be part of a ppc raptor lower priced mainboard crowd funding. Think penguin believes it is impossible to find 10000 buyers of the mainboard.
My point of view is, it does not matter, if a ppc libre software mainboard crowd funding is unsuccessful. Rather it is about giving libre software people the option to buy a new libre software computer. If volunteers did the campaigning, it would not be an expensive crowd funding. Raptor would have expenses devising a technical description of the mainboard. The free software foundation would have expenses reviewing raptors technical papers on the mainboard, in order to make a decision about endorsing a lower priced mainboard. Now the situation is, we have a company which says, they can and will manufacture a libre software computer, if they get an order of 10000 mainboards, about 500usd each. But will not do a crowd funding. Another company, which I assessed could be the frame of the crowd funding, will not do it. What do you suggest? I will write Stallman in order to get his opinion.
