@Neko

This has already been discussed (in this thread somewhere I believe) and this method of community fund rasing was agreed upon or at least decided one way or the other.

I am sure if someone wanted to fund the entire project for DD it would be open and welcome!

The whole point of this is to give back to the community motherboards at cost or near cost. If it can be pulled off I certainly wouldn't mind seeing involved parties (particularly Edward) getting some $ for his efforts.

Scam or not, it's the risk you have to take sometimes when you want something special and high-end that does not yet exist. ;)

Now, off to make a donation!

Last edited by DrJohn on 13-Oct-2004 at 09:27 PM.

@Neko

If you had read the thread through then you would be much less skeptical about this.

If I were to conduct this project as a business via a loan then it would have to be a greate deal larger then $6000, that only covers the cost of purchasing the board, which is what the donations are for, so that we can have something to show potential investors WHEN we go to get backing, which we will need to do a large scale production run. As I have been saying from the very begning.
If I were to go to an investment company for backing and they ask me how much I'm going to charge and I say cost then they're going to ask me how I'm going to make money and when I say by selling them to business their going to take one look at the name "Amiga" and laugh me out of the room. But if I take a board, allready running the AmigaOS, with initial developer sales and several pre-orders then they will take it a lot more seriously.

There is no "roughly cost" about it, the idea is that individuals buy them at EXACTLY the cost, that means what it costs us to have the boards produced, purchase the components, have the boards assembled, shipped to us, tested and then distributed to the people that purchase them. If you start adding a small markup the project changes.

There is nothing illegal about this, the donations are made with the understanding that they are being used to purchase a board to aid in development, if the project fials then all of the money is refunded less the ~2-3% transfer fees charged by payPAl and MoneyBookers.

You may run a VAT registered company that buys and sells computer parts but that is VERY different to this, do you buiy the chips in, design the boards then have them produced? No, you buy them either via a distributer of direct form the manufacturer!