It really is a dream of me to make my own hardware, if I can get enough of a financial buffer from the FP6 work to absorb the financial risk I really want to do it.
Which im also why I’m never starting a crowdfund like the liberux nexx that failed, I’m making the financial buffer from genuine work first, and then it’s my money on the line, and the community won’t be at risk of getting nothing in return.
The work on the FP6 wad really a good entry for this, when I first opened the wire diagrams I had no idea what I was looking at, now I know how to read them, and crucially make my own.
As far as I know the only competitor in this space is pine64, and I really disagree with their mentality. Their mentality seems to be make the hardware, get the community to make the software for free while they earn the money.
That’s not what I want to do, I want to make the hardware and software. Everything open source so people can contribute if they want, but I’m not outsourcing my software development to unpaid community members.
If and I repeat if I do this, I would open source all the hardware aswell so people can assemble it themselves. Like the FP6 currently in my shop buying from the shop buys you convience, not features. And I think that is the most ethical way to run a business.
It really is a dream of me to make my own hardware, if I can get enough of a financial buffer from the FP6 work to absorb the financial risk I really want to do it.
Which im also why I’m never starting a crowdfund like the liberux nexx that failed, I’m making the financial buffer from genuine work first, and then it’s my money on the line, and the community won’t be at risk of getting nothing in return.
The work on the FP6 wad really a good entry for this, when I first opened the wire diagrams I had no idea what I was looking at, now I know how to read them, and crucially make my own.
As far as I know the only competitor in this space is pine64, and I really disagree with their mentality. Their mentality seems to be make the hardware, get the community to make the software for free while they earn the money.
That’s not what I want to do, I want to make the hardware and software. Everything open source so people can contribute if they want, but I’m not outsourcing my software development to unpaid community members.
If and I repeat if I do this, I would open source all the hardware aswell so people can assemble it themselves. Like the FP6 currently in my shop buying from the shop buys you convience, not features. And I think that is the most ethical way to run a business.