On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Aaron J. Seigo aseigo@kde.org wrote:
On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 15:53:00 Derek wrote:
the maker community and easy access to awesome hardware is destroying the lines between “product” and “engineering kit”.
destroy too strong. blurring maybe :) if a merged-product-engineering-kit that's EOMA68 compliant ends up being sold in 50million+ units i think.. i think... a) i will fall off my chair backwards b) the goals of EOMA68 could be said to have been well and truly met.
bottom line please remember the EOMA68 standard is designed for absolutely ginormous volumes, for some very specific reasons which i won't go in to (as they're future-speculative), but if you work out how many 5mm x 85mm x 54mm cards can fit into a 50ft sea-going shipping container it gives some perspective.
l.