JackOfAll wrote: > 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. ;)
Well, that's £249-£299 that the commerical "entity" will never see from me. Shame, indeed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Krisbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101648
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