>POWER9's success is going to be by a mass-production
I do not call 10000 mainboards a mass production. The goal of a crowd funding is, if there is 10000 persons, who want to spend 1000usd on a libre software mainboard and cpu, we will find them and give them the option to buy the computer. If more want it, fine. You can have the opinion, there are no 10000 persons. You are probably right. I think there is a small chance. And if it can be tested at small costs for raptor, it should be done. A market survey could give us the answer telling us if a crowd funding will be fruitful. But we do not have one and are not going to get one.
