On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Mike Connors <mconno...@gmail.com> wrote: > David Kaplan wrote: >> Before you buy one, read this: >> >> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/69182.html >> > Ha, just another marketing dog & pony show! They really aren't > doing much for Linux/FOSS community or for the *Open* hw consumer. > It almost makes you wonder if it's funded by M$....?
I don't know if I'd go that far. It's easy for Apple, HP, and Dell to get volume discounts from their suppliers. Hell, their suppliers trip over each other trying to give volume discounts. It's harder to get a volume discounts when you're only selling tens or hundreds of an item. Open Hardware has to start somewhere. I'm glad these guys are putting themselves out there. Good on them... I don't see the BIOS thing being much of an issue. It would be easy to swap in an OpenBIOS package if they manage to get some code running. Open-PC might as well ship what they got. I suspect they based their design off the Atom Customer Reference Board and used Intel's BIOS package. It comes down to a simple question. Do you want to buy from Dell, HP, Apple, ect. and get 0% Open Source and no chance of Open Source in the future, or do you go with Open-PC (or some other vendor) with 80% Open Source and a damn good chance of 100% in the future? Steve D... -- "Every perception is a gamble" Robert Anton Wilson _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
