Don't take it personally, I've nothing against you, or TI ... . You did a great Job.
Micka, On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:53 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.orgother >>> 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.
