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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is Canonical, and they're purposefully taking in enough funding to
make this happen smoothly. Hard to believe as it may be, I think they know
what they're doing.

Sincerely,
Josh
On Jul 22, 2013 7:43 PM, "Mike Bybee" <mbybee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On 07/22/2013 01:53 PM, Jim Hodapp wrote:
>
> How can you get burned? You donate $600, the campaign makes it to $32M,
> you get an Ubuntu Edge, if not, you're not out a dime.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Mike Bybee <mbybee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>   On 07/22/2013 12:05 PM, Sam Bull wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 13:47 -0500, Josh Leverette wrote:
>>
>>  Cool. Also, I wrote a Python script for my personal use, to watch the
>> amount of funding that the Ubuntu Edge has
>> received! http://pastebin.com/TJ1Hvktw
>>
>>  Thanks for that, just popped that into my conky script. :D
>>
>>
>>
>>   I'm so in - *really* want to throw down the $600 - but I've been so
>> burned by things like Ouya that I'm going to stick with the $20 pledge
>> instead.
>>
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>  You missed the most frequent option we've hit so far with crowdsourced
> hardware - it gets funded, there's tons of fulfilment/shipping/distribution
> issues and|or the hardware completely sucks and has "alpha" all over it.
> See Ouya as a capital example. There's plenty of others, of course. The
> Nvidia shield may be another one, we'll have to see there. Several open
> source gaming platforms, the OpenMoko handset, etc.
> Actually, you're more likely to get burned that to have it come up roses.
>
> Sorry, I rode *all* the rides like that I can afford to. Only Pebble
> turned out for me in the last 36 mos.
>
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