Re: [linux-sunxi] CHIP goes bankrupt?
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 04:22:02PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 01:55:36PM +, Benjamin Henrion wrote: > > CHIP goes bankrupt?: > > > > https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ > > Another $hitpi down the drain. > > ($hitpi: a cheap board, often chinese, trying hard to compete with the > raspberry pi) > > The only notable difference is that this was (at least superficially, > they did seem to have quite some chinese ties) a .us based kickstarter, > and their crowdfunding campaign got bitten hard by the GPL violations > drumbeating. > > So much so that they made a u-turn halfway through their kickstarter > campaign and ended up paying free-electrons to have some of their > developers work on upstream code on paid time. > > But mostly, NTC is/was a lot more noise compared to other $hitpis. > > The only $hitpi i truly am not glad to have seen go was the cubieboard, > as Tom Cubies board(s) and attitude helped make linux-sunxi big. And > that was soon 6 years ago. Also, we still do not have any real info about the c.h.i.p. in our wiki. NTC of course wanted to build its own totally separate community, which is standard $hitpi practice tbh. So here it once again should be clear just how important a vendor neutral wiki is. But that's something sunxi and other projects' longtimers should've known already. Luc Verhaegen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [linux-sunxi] CHIP goes bankrupt?
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 01:55:36PM +, Benjamin Henrion wrote: > CHIP goes bankrupt?: > > https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ Another $hitpi down the drain. ($hitpi: a cheap board, often chinese, trying hard to compete with the raspberry pi) The only notable difference is that this was (at least superficially, they did seem to have quite some chinese ties) a .us based kickstarter, and their crowdfunding campaign got bitten hard by the GPL violations drumbeating. So much so that they made a u-turn halfway through their kickstarter campaign and ended up paying free-electrons to have some of their developers work on upstream code on paid time. But mostly, NTC is/was a lot more noise compared to other $hitpis. The only $hitpi i truly am not glad to have seen go was the cubieboard, as Tom Cubies board(s) and attitude helped make linux-sunxi big. And that was soon 6 years ago. Luc Verhaegen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[linux-sunxi] CHIP goes bankrupt?
CHIP goes bankrupt?: https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
