[Freedombox-discuss] [Melvin Carvalho] Re: FreedomBox in the Chronicle of Higher Education
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:26:59 +0100
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>
> > i've been on the receiving end of quotes for various systems for the
> > past 2 years. ?the AML-8726-M is the best price-performance system
> > on the market... that's _actually_ possible to get hold of. ?there
> > is
>
> apologies: qualification - best price-performance *at the moment*.
> the sheer number of ARM Cortex A8 and A9 systems coming out the
> woodwork is so high, relatively speaking, that a better
> price-performance system could come along at any time. i've been
> working on a plan to deal with that rapid pace of change:
> http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/PCMCIA/MiniEngineeringBoard
The answer to bringing price down is always production numbers.
Allowing for the fact that none of us, probably, are millionaires?
This would suggest pre-selling.
I have some genuine contacts in Bahrain and Libya and, by extension,
also Syria and Yemen. Also contacts in the West that would be
interested. These later would be particularly valuable as some are
journalists. Crowd-sourcing of markets, through the open aspect with
all of us could probably generate enough numbers to initiate a process.
Requirements: central payment facility for, at least, a deposit
format to facilitate minimum buying cost of components; reliable
distribution network.
Regards,
Weaver.
--
"In a world without walls and fences,
what need have we for Windows or Gates?"
-Anon.
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