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Chumby developer building open source laptop | 222 comments | Create New Account
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It's got a Raspberry Pi GPIO interface!
Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 11:34 AM EST
Don't waste time getting a box for it. Let's play!

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Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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"Many people will pay considerably extra just to get things the way they want, instead of ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 12:23 PM EST
Like a round case with square corners! Just kidding ;)

This has great potential as long as the builders can get the rest of the
hardware at decent prices.

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Chumby developer building open source laptop
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 01:28 PM EST
Let's face it, Novell's marketing has ALWAYS been celsleus. I've always been a
big fan of Novell's technology, but to go from first to worst in the server
space over just a few years in the mid-90 s proves their ineptitude at selling
and they really haven't gotten much better since. It's no surprise they
misjudged both who they were dealing with, and what the community reaction would
be. Another thing we need to accept: NOBODY has better lawyers than Microsoft.
That's been their strategic advantage all along, it's never been their
technology. Think about how many cases they've won that have been pivotal and
changed the computing industry completely: vs IBM over DOS, vs Apple over the
windowed-gui, vs the US GOVERNMENT(!) over bundling' what I like to call
illegal tying'. I can't imagine anyone who could spin legal jargon better and
get away with it, so Novell never had a chance. At the end of the day, I agree
completely with where you started: Customers want indemnification because of
Microsoft FUD, period. Novell gave it to them. It upsets the idealist Linux
community, but customers will come, and I truly believe that Linux will benefit
in the long run as will Novell. They did learn one lesson from Microsoft
Upsetting the industry is sometimes necessary to win.

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