@Neko

What is the relevance of this non-for profit community project to what bPlan or Genesi or any other company might or might not do?

If you bothered to read some of the 13 pages of delusion you would see that this is not a business and hence there is no need for a bplan. There is NO refund to the community if the project should not complete after the board has been puchased. It's called a personal (not a buisness)"risk".

Otherwise, your point of view is certainly welcome and noted.

@Neko

No you don't see them taking preorders, but then again they sell their boards for a profit, not to aid the community and thus they are on much more stable finacial ground.
I did not say that donations were a business plan, the other workings I have described are, well no they're not a business plan, that would be about as long as this thread, but they are a summary of how this project will opporate.
If the "project" fail it implies that the board was never purchased, in which case the money can be refunded, the "project" has suceeded once the board is purchased, if, beyond that, I can't supply the motherboard for whatever reason the project as whole has failed but the donations servered their purpose which is to buy the board. Everyone should be aware of this when they donate, I am doing my best to make this possible. In this case it would always be possible to auction off the board to the highest bidder either for them to carry on the work or as a peice of Amgia history, the fist, and possibly only, G5 Amiga, complete with working OS4.
You don't seem to get it that the whole idea of this project is NO profit, otherwise I would allready have got the loan and bought the board. It would be possible to run it at a very small profit but then the loan takes a long time to repay and you may as well just have gone full whack and sold it commerically in the first place. As soon as you start paying for the evaluation board using the production boards this stops being the community project which it is aiming to be.
Why would I screw the community over? I have never said there won't be problems, I am confident however that they will be minor.
Yes, I also know how a business is run, but I'm not trying to run one, when it comes to having a board and commencing a pre-production run then I will establish a not for profit organisation to oversee the entire production process and future developments.