Terry, I do realize you're mostly aiming your comments at Gerald but let me just say that I think you missed a few key points.
1) This is not a Dell or common general purpose PC. So you can not expect the same from such hardware. With that said, there is nothing wrong with the hardware. It all works fine, and actually up until recently the only thing that did not work was the SGX/DRM video drivers. Now, that has been resolved, but still in alpha / beta stage ( ish ). Different people seem to have experienced different problems here and there, but think this is very likely mostly user error. 2) Do you understand the idea of open source hardware ? *.org is usually and possibly always non profit domain name affiliation. What Gerald and his partners have planned I have no idea, but in my own mind the Beaglebone black is far from a flop. Quite the opposite actually when electronics retailers can hardly seem to keep them in stock, because they sell so fast. 3) If you can pick up a book, or read web pages you can do this yourself. Many in this group will help, even me, when you have a reasonable question to ask. Anyways it really suck that this does not seem to be working for you. Just now that many of of are perfectly happy with these little boards. Heck there are a few people who own ten's and possibly even hundred's of these very boards . . . On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Terry Storm <terrystor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gerald, I find this very interesting. > So given the barebones target price of $45, it seems Marketting and Sales > have failed on the BBB totally, as if 100K BBB's have been sold now and > Circuitco is breakeven and Beagleboard.org doesnt make anything, then to me > it sounds like the project was/is a flop. Hardware is great, but its crap > if nothing runs on it out of the box. > > I have 2 BBB's which gather dust at this moment, along with 4 Capes, of > which I personally can do nothing about. I would have to spend years > learning from nothing in order to do anything productive to get anywhere > even close to trying to fix the problems I personally care about. Its not > about me personally not putting in the effort to learn Linux, its about > capability, and I am not capable. If Koen was the only developer on this > thing, I imagine he has a fairly impressive CV regarding linux etc, so > myself in comparison is N/A, and I imagine that is the case for 90% of > users out there. Mutter Mutter. So peoples comments about everyone else not > putting in the effort to learn and fix themselves, I find irrelevant, as > not everyone is capable of doing this work. Its like trying to get a truck > driver to design a bridge across some massive canyon. > > I agree with what was said above, I would have happily paid $50 for a BBB > if it meant it actually works software wise. > > What has happened is essentially like 'Acme Computers' brought processors > off 'Beta Processors Ltd' and used 'Gigasoft OS' as their OS, sold 100K > computers to the public and said it does xyz, but it turns out it doesn't > work as people expected, and actually requires customer to learn how to > modify said Gigasoft OS themselves in order to get the hardware working > correctly before they even start the development of their software which > they are to then sell to make a profit themselves. Crazy. > > Would hate to think of the number of customers who are pissed off at the > situation. Would be interesting to see the number of customers who use > their share of the 100K of BBB's too. I would imagine a large number > purchased, couldn't do much, so have put them in the cupboard and are > either waiting for a stable OS or have moved on, or given up etc. > > Still cant believe the breakeven after 100K. > > Terry. > > > On Tuesday, 31 December 2013 09:52:52 UTC+13, Gerald wrote: >> >> Circuitco, breaks even, barely. Beagleboard.org makes no money at all. >> >> TI, well they make a little of the chips, but provides no funding for >> BeagleBoard.org. >> >> Anyone willing to donate some funds so we can fund some SW developers? >> >> Gerald >> >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
