Re: The problem is not the computers.
- From: wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Garrett Wollman)
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:09:37 +0000 (UTC)
In article <slrnf9l806.h9.hellsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter H. Coffin <hellsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
They'd take my donation, but weren't interested in making said
machines available to me, even if selling me four meant that they
could afford to give away two more.
I'm certain that Quanta has no interest in competing with its paying
customers for laptop sales, and I would be surprised if their fab
contract didn't state that explicitly. Everything is open-source,
including the hardware; you want one, you can build one yourself.
(According to Jim Gettys, the economics of manufacturing are such that
you have to make at least 100,000 units in order for it to be
practical. I don't know how much of their first production run is
already spoken for, but I would bet that most or all of it is.)
-GAWollman
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