Pascal Hibon wrote: 
> Glad to hear things are starting to work out for you Clive.

I wouldn't go that far. LOL.

Actually, from the community side of things, it is a crap deal. It has
cost me the Bone Player design and software that I would have released
under the GPL. I'm really not happy about the total commercialisation of
the Bone Player. I was talking to you about making the cape available at
a little over cost for the DIY/geek crowd, max £50. It's now going to
appear as a commercial product, supplied with BBB (element14 commercial
version), image in NAND, power supply, and a custom plastic case that
they are designing, but the price point they are going for is somewhere
between £249-£299.

Which is going to price quite a few people who would have had a dabble
with it, out of the game. Still, having been able to back-to-back with
the Pi and a couple of the plug-in I2S DAC's that have been released for
that, I don't need to worry that the SQ will let it down at that price
point. But it really is a shame that people who might have had a dabble,
with a £50 cape and £40 for a BBB, will never get the chance. But
anyway, I was over a barrel, just wanting to get at least the source
back online for what had been released up to now.

Expect an announcement next week. ;)


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