TI pays my salary too, but you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone at TI that knows what I'm doing day-to-day in relation to Beagle. TI continues to pay our salaries as Beagle helps people use TI chips, but my manager has 0 input on the direction of BeagleBoard.org----not that we'd necessarily want to upset TI. Would be interesting to crowd-fund Gerald's salary for the 100+ hours a week he spends supporting people on Beagle. Be generous folks! ;-)
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Gerald Coley <ger...@beagleboard.org> wrote: > The part that says does not TI invests $$$$ into the operation of > BeagleBord.org other than some of my day job and none of my time I spend on > it in my personal time and weekends, the other 80 hours of my work week. > > Gerald > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Micka <mickamus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> TI has nothing to do with beagleboard.org but Gerald Coley is a TI >> Engineer ? >> >> >> Which part I didn't understand ? >> >> >> Micka, >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Anders <danders....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Venkat, >>> >>> >>> On Monday, March 17, 2014 4:36:42 PM UTC-5, Venkat Bommakanti wrote: >>>> >>>> On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:20 AM UTC-7, oha...@ohararp.com wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> ... I would have no problem paying $75 for this board if we could >>>>>> guarantee availibility and continued support (ie being able to stay in >>>>>> business).... >>>> >>>> >>>> Have a feeling, even at an hiked up unit price of $75, the hoarders will >>>> gobble them up in large #s, and pass the extra cost on to their customers - >>>> after all, the free market price would also be $75. I doubt TI could >>>> guarantee supplies even at that price - unless something is done to prevent >>>> productizers from bulk-ordering huge quantities. >>>> >>>> TI supposedly released this board as a "community product" and should >>>> try and pursue that goal and not just give up that easy. By hiking the >>>> price >>>> to say $55/60, and through beaglebone.org, TI can allow for the purchase of >>>> just a couple of boards to a given shipping address, it can be done since >>>> the extra cost could be used to support this option... Many MIR promoters >>>> do >>>> that today, not entirely impossible (even $60 ARM quad-core based board >>>> manufactures do it - 1 per forum member/acct). So beagleboard can make it >>>> say 2 or 3 or some reasonable small #. The hoarders can always buy from >>>> those other distributors - whose stock-notification scheme is a mere joke. >>>> 10mins into getting an email - they are back to 0-stock. >>>> >>> >>> just a clarification here: TI has nothing to do with beagleboard.org >>> other than sell circuitco the processors to be used on beagleboard.org >>> products >>> >>> http://beagleboard.org/about >>> >>> Dave >>> >>>> >>>> Gerald, >>>> >>>> Pl. figure out a reasonably affordable scheme for the community and >>>> another for market-driven scene, where folks are building products using >>>> these, against all (practically legally non-enforceable) warnings. The >>>> entire learning/maker community, imho, is being heavily penalized, for the >>>> actions of a few hoarders. >>>> >>>> thanks. >>>> >>> -- >>> 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/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. > > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
