> There will be a place for both EOMA and the POWER9.
I agree completely. I just don't think POWER9's success is going to be by a mass-production crowdfunding campaign aimed primarily at the libre software community. I think Raptor needs to also give a lot of attention to some larger niches that POWER9 is or can be strong in. I don't know whether or not they're doing this, but if they are, then they're going about this perfectly.
If I may summarize, I think EOMA68's success has to be from the bottom up, whereas Raptor's success has to be from the top down, just because of their price points. I think this is great, though, because that's twice the chance of succeeding (since due to their massive differences in price point and power they aren't really competing with each other).
