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| From | 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, uk.misc, uk.politics.misc, uk.comp.os.linux |
| Subject | Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales |
| Followup-To | comp.os.linux.advocacy, uk.misc, uk.politics.misc, uk.comp.os.linux |
| Date | 2016-10-17 18:44 +0000 |
| Organization | enemygadgets.com |
| Message-ID | <e6kkh8FfnmU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <e6ibn3FeeviU1@mid.individual.net> <nu2th0$fdl$1@deskrabbit.motzarella.org> |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
Followups directed to: comp.os.linux.advocacy, uk.misc, uk.politics.misc, uk.comp.os.linux
Desk Rabbit wrote: >> Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel >> improves hardware sales >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> The biggest selling CPU boards of all time are those that have a >> debugging port for Uboot and systems that ship with stock Linux kernels. >> >> These in turn have made the companies that make CPUs and release >> developer boards with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel the >> most successful on the planet displacing all other competitors in the >> same market. >> >> The lesson for Linux gadget companies is to release ALL their hardware >> with built in Uboot serial debugging port, and use stock Linux kernels. >> Dump the uboot and Kernels to some download link to comply with GPL. >> Then you got the makings of a successful product. >> >> What tends to happen is that people with time and tinkering >> experience upgrade the Kernel and improve on deficiencies and make >> secondary products that you can use to improve your own product, >> or it may create secondary sales, or it may lead to entire new >> class of products that you can make with all the new drivers, and >> hardware the tinkerers have got working for your product. >> >> For the fabless semiconductor companies in China for example, >> this has led to complete world domination with working CPUs and >> numerous hardware on a time scale that no one have been able to match. >> >> Some of these companies are making so much money they no longer >> want to make money by making any of their own gadgets. Instead they make >> completely new customized boards, with serial debug port, Linux kernel >> and uboot as a package for about $2000 for anybody >> that wants to pay this start up cost. They can turn around these >> new products in days to weeks. >> These ventures usually turn into $1 million orders within months. >> The time scales and time frames are just unbelievable. >> >> For western companies that want to make use of these >> incredible resources, they need to have their own Linux teams ready >> to accept new hardware and add on their own software to make >> their IoT devices to finished products in months to make profit. >> To make the known formula work for your products, >> leave in the serial debug port, and dump uboot and Linux to some >> download site to satisfy the GPL and you got a product that will >> sell and sell for years to come. >> > > Got an example of one of these boards returning $1 million dollar orders? Yes.
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Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-16 22:02 +0000
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-17 17:16 +0100
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-17 18:44 +0000
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-17 21:06 +0100
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-17 21:39 +0000
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 09:50 +0100
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-10-18 21:15 +0000
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 12:47 +0100
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-19 14:09 +0200
Re: Shipping hardware with Uboot serial debug port and stock Linux kernel improves hardware sales Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 14:36 +0100
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