On Thursday, September 4, 2014 2:57:45 AM UTC+1, murr...@ameritech.net wrote: > > *This is not the fault of the hardware or the designers of the hardware. > This is your fault for not knowing the tools. Harsh as it may seem, this is > a fact. This is why professional software engineers with the skills to > setup / use said tools get paid big money.* > > It is very much the responsibility of the hardware vendor to provide an > out-of-the-box development environment. Any reputable board supplier will > provide multiple OS and stand-alone support tools and documentation. If > they don't, they lose customers. The companies that pay the big monies to > their professionals want them to hit the ground running and not waste time > spending two weeks trying to get a light to blink. >
You mistake the nature of the BeagleBone Black. It is explicitly not validated for commercial use, and all the drawings, documentation and so on have been made freely available so that you can have your own version built if you wish to use it commercially. Hence the absence of TI's support - you have a board, and an OS, and a compiler and the rest is up to you. Hence also the $50 price. Will -- 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.
