Ummm.. 1 month to figure out how you want to build it and hook it up, and 4 weeks to actually manufacture the parts and screw them together. Or was it the change in units from months to weeks that confused you??
The company that I work for has 8 or 10 of these on order already. I will be beating on one as soon as we get them in and I am willing to post the results here. We had good luck getting Linux to run on the Espresso, even though the USB enet took a bit of work to get running with the 2.2 kernel.
Steve Fuller
The moderator that marked this post as a troll needs a serious beating. Again, just because you don't agree with what a poster has to say doesn't mean you should mark it as a troll. Yes this post might cause some controversy, but for crying out loud take of your blinders.
"You can't go into the street and instantly copy a $500,000 car. If I steal the car, then the person who owns the car is directly affected. However, if I copy the car and drive off with it, the owner of the car doesn't lose anything" I don't think this is a very good analogy, because in this example, the person who owns the car (ie the person that bought the CD) has already paid the car's producer (the artist), the requested fee for the car (CD). You are right, that the person that owns the car isn't affected. But the issue is that the company that made the car just lost a sale because you have a perfect copy of the car. The only way that many people would actually go out and BUY the car, was if they could only drive it on a certain road.
Loki was responsible for the release of the product in it's commercial form. I would imagine that once the code was finished, that they had some things the needed to be worked out like an installer, and some other things specific to Linux. To take what used to be an unsupported download and turn it into a polished commercial product takes some time.
I suppose this means that since they also placed bombs throughout the building that we should probably work on banning propane, propane tanks, steel pipes, nails, and glass too??
Access to certain items makes certain actions easier, but the instigator must want to commit those actions before those items are put to that use.
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Ummm.. 1 month to figure out how you want to build it and hook it up, and 4 weeks to actually manufacture the parts and screw them together. Or was it the change in units from months to weeks that confused you??
The company that I work for has 8 or 10 of these on order already. I will be beating on one as soon as we get them in and I am willing to post the results here. We had good luck getting Linux to run on the Espresso, even though the USB enet took a bit of work to get running with the 2.2 kernel. Steve Fuller
The moderator that marked this post as a troll needs a serious beating. Again, just because you don't agree with what a poster has to say doesn't mean you should mark it as a troll. Yes this post might cause some controversy, but for crying out loud take of your blinders.
"You can't go into the street and instantly copy a $500,000 car. If I steal the car, then the person who owns the car is directly affected. However, if I copy the car and drive off with it, the owner of the car doesn't lose anything" I don't think this is a very good analogy, because in this example, the person who owns the car (ie the person that bought the CD) has already paid the car's producer (the artist), the requested fee for the car (CD). You are right, that the person that owns the car isn't affected. But the issue is that the company that made the car just lost a sale because you have a perfect copy of the car. The only way that many people would actually go out and BUY the car, was if they could only drive it on a certain road.
Loki was responsible for the release of the product in it's commercial form. I would imagine that once the code was finished, that they had some things the needed to be worked out like an installer, and some other things specific to Linux. To take what used to be an unsupported download and turn it into a polished commercial product takes some time.
I suppose this means that since they also placed bombs throughout the building that we should probably work on banning propane, propane tanks, steel pipes, nails, and glass too??
Access to certain items makes certain actions easier, but the instigator must want to commit those actions before those items are put to that use.