What is the point of this thread? Huh? MIPS licenses the technology to a Chinese fabricator; They make the chips and they are used in a very open source netbook which Lemote happens to sell.; Stallman himself uses one. >From his perspective, from an article I read, he stated he uses one because the BIOS is open source. A company in China has come out with a MIPS based Android tablet for $100. Perhaps you should consider that instead?
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com> wrote: > > These words you keep on using... I don't think they mean what you think > > they mean. > > That's ok because I'm the one who "keeps on using" them, not you. But I > meant what I wrote just so you know. > > > Noone is holding you at gunpoint until you are buying a Lemote device. > > No but the factory is making sure only limited dealers can sell them. I > smell a rat. > > > If you consider them too expensive for what you think they are worth, > > it's fine. But don't tell people their prices are ``holding people in > > hostage''. Thanks. > > Oh, so you are one of the people holding people hostage by limiting > distribution and you're just not admitting it? > > Or you're just an argumentative sonofabitch and for some reason you believe > it's your responsibility to police the net for certain types of posts and > align yourself with those who gouge people on slave labor technology? After > all it costs them about 5 bucks to actually make it. Pardon me I am not > rushing to pay 250 dollars. That seems excessive as I have said. > > Since you have advice for me, let me share some for you. Mind your own > fucking business. I really don't give a shit that you don't think a > restricted distribution network and price controls are fine. Most of the > rest of us don't agree. > > Now go away..
