Re: ethernet card discussion

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

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> DawnWolf wrote in message ...
> >Noone, but noone, who is interested mainly in his bottom line, will
> >develop purely for the A2. It just does not make sense.
>
> Ah. They just develop for the a2 for the love of it, and accidentally tack
> on a $100 fee for their effort.

Ah, but if you have your $50 card, people will get a bare board and a baggie of
parts. ///SSH is selling a completed, debugged, fully assembled and tested
board, with a ceiling price of $200, and a target price of as low as they can
go, and justify the time and expense. If he sells 100 of them, he won't break
even on his time and effort. He deserves that much at least.

> Of course it's for the bottom line, you
> dolt.

And you complain about other people's insults?

> Else he wouldn't be selling it. Whether or not he is stupid, and
> doesn't realize it will lose money, or he's shrewd and knows he can charge
> whatever he wants because of enthusiast loyalty, it's the bottom line.

There is a huge logical leap in your statement.

>
> Exactly which, remains to be seen. If he does this PURELY out of love for
> the a2, then either he doesn't know enough to find better bargains

And do you know what bargains can be had in Europe, where he lives and works?
How do you know that this isn't the cheapest he can make it THERE?

> from
> suppliers, or there is some mixup in the price that I have seen.
>
> No matter what, I think you miss my point. I don't really care how
> successful he is, but I won't begrduge him any sales either.

The don't make posts that say the opposite of what you just said.

> My point is
> that if there is enough interest, and people can learn to cooperate, other
> projects like this could be successful. It might not be for everybody, but
> if you just absolutely have to have something that isn't commercially
> available, and you're willing to learn to use a soldering iron... Thing is,
> though, there have to be more people than just you though. I'm sure there
> are people who can do homemade pcb's better than I, but even they will run
> into minimum quantities for components.

Oh, after being insulting, now you calm down and write rationally. But I
totally agree on the idea of looking at what others are doing, it can give you
an idea of errors to avoid, or spark an idea that takes you into a totally
different direction. I know that Bill Malcom has seen posts (and I think your
website), it hasn't changed how he's planning his ethernet card, but he does
find it interesting. I know that I can't wait to connect my //GS to our home
network and slip over the DSL line to the internet with Arachnid as my web
browser - Go Kim, Go!

Roy

>
>
> John Oyler
> http://aIIethernet.tripod.com/
> jojo4@va.mediaone.net