17 Mar
2012
17 Mar
'12
11:25 p.m.
(Me)
Hi Liam,
I am not sure if it does make much sense to address these polite
"concerns" by the other chap... :)
If the person making this statement can make boards for EUR 20.- each
we'd be delighted to buy from him. For sure such price would be possible
when making 100,000+ boards. We do runs of 100, we have to pay for
electronics recycling (WEEE) registration, we pay tax, etc. I am sure
hobbyists only doing a few boards can get around such things, we can't.
We can't get even near this figure. For the record: the board is EUR
90.-; EUR 100.- is with cables we also have to buy to resell them.
The donations asked for are for the preservation project, maybe it would
have made sense to read the donations text file enclosed. And yes, even
MS Office has student and pro editions available, I don't see anything
wrong in charging companies that can afford to pay more. They keep it
free for private users, at least for our product.
> > > These days, you probably want
something more like this:
> > > http://www.kryoflux.com/
(Other chap)
> The driver is not only closed-source, but
forbids commercial use and
> requests donations on top of the EUR100 they charge for about EUR20 of
> electronics. The vendor can go fuck themselves. And you can quote me on
> that.
Sorry, chaps, but I really do think you have a bit of a problem here
that you need to address!