On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Fabián Rodríguez <magic...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > > > On 12/01/17 03:12 AM, Catonano wrote: >> Today, january 12, only 454 pledges have been made to the Talos proect >> crowdunding campaign page. >> >> https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstation >> >> This is not just a missed target. This is something more, as if there >> was a reection of the proect. >> >> The freedom sensble community is small, yes, but not this small. >> >> What's going on ? >> > > I'll share my impressions since you asked: > > * Give $10 or $250 - no options in-between > * No T-shirts, no stickers > * 6 months shared SSH-access for 250$? > * Absurd amount of information to digest in every update (even for me) > > Setting up a smaller goal, usable rewards and easier-to-digest updates > would have helped a lot. Now this only looks like another failed > out-of-touch-with-reality project. > > As it is, I didn't even contribute $10 as I had the distinct impression > the project would fail. How can I ever advocate this?
You were convinced they would fail if they got funding? Or convinced they would fail to get their desired funding? > > I have given / donated generously to many Free software projects and > organizations (including the FSF) and have often convinced others to do > so (even refering new people to join > http://www.fsf.org/associate/referrers/referrerlist ) but honestly Talos > was outside of anything I could refer, in any way. I really wanted Talos to succeed, but I think the core issue is the pieces were just too expensive $3700 just for a mainboard not including the CPU. They raised over twice as the EOMA68 project which was also freedom respecting. (https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop). $3.7 million was just too big of a target. > > F. > > -- > Fabián Rodríguez > http://fsf.magicfab.ca/ > >