> > *There are indeed two camps - the bleeding edge that loves change and the > trailing edge that wants stability. God bless both camps as they depend on > each other for a viable ecosystem.*
To be clear: The camp I'm in understands that the beaglebone was never meant to be used in a commercial product. This has been stated on these groups more than a couple times. By those who are part of beagleboard.org. So when a person, or persons approaches a discussion from the commercial angle, I feel that part of the discussion is moot. At least on these groups. Now the teacher / student perspective I think is more reasonable. After all if memory serves correctly, this was one of beagelboard.org's initial goals. To teach. However, one also needs to understand. The software community behind the hardware does not get paid by beaglebord.org, or the end user to create, improve, or otherwise keep the same software running on *this* board indefinitely. Or even at all. Now perhaps there are third party companies who do allow, or even pay employees to work in this capacity. But they are under no obligation to do so. Such is open source software . . . However, we as hobbyists, or even professionals are allowed to contribute back to the community. We are even allowed to build our own boards, based on the open sourced hardware. For commercial applications, or whatever. By doing so though, we accept full responsibility for our creation. As it should be. As for the longevity of the AM355x . . . Let us worry about that 7-8 years from now . . . On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Bill Mar <bill...@specialcomp.com> wrote: > There are indeed two camps - the bleeding edge that loves change and the > trailing edge that wants stability. God bless both camps as they depend on > each other for a viable ecosystem. > > Thanks to BeagleBoard open source and parts/doc public availability, we > can attempt to tackle the "perils" that we believe is a better trade-off > than building everything ourselves. > > Special Computing offers BeagleBoneBlack with or without logos for both > camps which we can build/test ourselves and offer to the public. This > allows us to be independent to offer options like industrial temp plus > variations like 1GB DRAM, Wifi, other processors, etc. > > https://specialcomp.com/beaglebone > > Special Computing > +1-480-818-5745 > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Przemek Klosowski < > przemek.klosow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Karl Karpfen <karlkarpfe...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > It may not be relevant for hobbyists that always want to have the latest >> > hardware and replace their board every month, but it is HIGHLY relevant >> for >> > all kinds of industry usage where a hardware needs to stay available and >> > stable over a longer period. There it does not matter when the device >> itself >> > is a bit outdated, it would be much more expensive for companies to >> change a >> > whole machine just because a simple controller board is no longer >> available. >> >> Right, and it leads to a paradoxical situation where old, slow >> hardware is much more expensive than shiny new, fast hardware--there >> are many hidden costs involved in guaranteed multi-year availability. >> The industry is willing to pay for such guarantees, but most of the >> people on this list are not so inclined. >> >> -- >> 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.
