[coreboot] Hack A Day is slamming the PCduino

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Same here. I may buy one for the novelty of it, then again I may not.
But those low brow comments are getting more and more vile......

And David, I'm referring to all of them.
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:16 PM, David Hubbard
<david.c.hubbard+coreboot at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>> It is interesting. A number of weeks after Ron brought up the
>> existence of this gadget, the site I track the availability of
>> discussed the thing.
>>
>> Basically they are trying to stay out of the argument, but the
>> comments are quite negative. It seems the connector across one end
>> makes it available for the accessories for the rest of us, have the
>> gadget making it an interesting thing to use, but see for yourselves:
>> http://hackaday.com/2013/12/09/the-40-x86-arduino/
>>
>> as you all will see the comments aren't quite positive in their
>> statements.
>
>
> I'm not sure which comment you refer to, but a quick review shows only the
> most trite of "negative" comments, along the lines of "ARM is cheaper."
>
> It would be silly to spend any time discussing things in the hackaday.com
> comments anyway. The site itself admits they have a problem with the
> low-brow comments.
>
> But even though I personally have no interest in an x86 clone stuffed into
> an arduino package, I can find no actual attacks. The comments are pretty
> tame for what typically happens on hackaday.
>
> Cheers,
> David