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On 11/03/2012 05:13, Mark Borgerson wrote:
> In article<95fb58fb-5288-4f2e-9c49-
> e42988712d2b@q18g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, gnuarm@gmail.com says...
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>> On Mar 10, 4:44 pm, David<nos...@nospam.com>  wrote:
>>> On 08/03/2012 08:21, keithr wrote:
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>>>> On 8/03/2012 9:00 AM, Don McKenzie wrote:
>>>>> OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?
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>>>>> After talks at the recent Embedded conference in Germany (2012), Olimex
>>>>> decided to go ahead with the production of two new boards that were very
>>>>> similar to the Rasberry Pi. The first one they should have prototypes in
>>>>> the coming weeks.
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>>>>> The second will be 3 to 6 months before production boards will be seen,
>>>>> so I won't cover it in this report, however the CPU specs on this second
>>>>> board, are almost identical to the RPi microcontroller chip, and board.
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>>>>> Olimex describes this board as a bridge to the linux development
>>>>> community and the Duinomite/Arduino/Maple/Pinguino world of developers.
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>>>>> This will be completely Open Hardware / Open Source Project, all CAD
>>>>> files will be available so everyone can download modify, and use them.
>>>>> Same with the software.
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>>>>> More Info:
>>>>> http://www.duinomite.com/olinuxino-a-serious-rasberry-pi-competitor/
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>>>> I suppose that it is the most sincere form of flattery. Looks like
>>>> Olimex disagrees with all those on the other thread that reckon that the
>>>> Pi is a waste of time.
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>>> Hmm, strangely enough there was a link in another thread here where the
>>> main guys from Olimex were trashing the R-pi a bit and doubting they
>>> could make it for the price.
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>>> Do you think they have an ulterior motive and not exactly unbiased position?
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>> I'm sure they wish they could sell 10,000 of anything in the first day
>> its on the market.  Wouldn't we all?
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> Ummm-it's not too hard to sell 10,000 of anything if you spec it right
> and don't  actually deliver the product!  ;-)
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> Mark Borgerson
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None of that is by any means trivial.

You need to put significant effort into getting that information out to 
the right people, convincing the sales channel that this is the right 
thing to push as well as the media.

Then get 10000 people to commit to buying before delivery

Anyone who can do that needs to put in a lot of effort.

Not delivering - well that is easy.
Keeping momentum and recovering from it could be challenging.

I'm just not so sure why so many people appear to want them to fail.