[Hamara-devel] CHIP - The World's First Nine Dollar Computer on kickstarter.

[shirish]

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On 05/12/2015 01:30 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 11/05/15 20:04, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> See
>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer
>>
>>
>> Just goes to show how much of appetite such products and projects have.
>>
>> If this becomes popular (as backer backing shows) we may have to port
>> hamara here as well. Shouldn't be too hard but still might have some
>> niggles to work out.
> Seems like a good effort - but backked by Allwinner? Not so sure about
> that:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=allwinner-stripped-symbols
>
>
> I did read that they are charging $20 for shipping - so does that make
> it a $29 computer? I guess we have to wait and see about that.

I saw that and did see the net flame-up over the matter. I'm hoping this 
will be resolved soon otherwise this could be a PR disaster for the team 
behind CHIP. They are already funded, let's see how the story develops.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org