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From: kilian@cray.com (Alan Kilian)
Subject: Miniboard VS Commercial products.
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Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 3 Dec 92 12:57:26 CST


I hate to do this because we do mention a lot of commercial products
on this newsgroup but I think that Don Golding has gotten a little
bit out of line with his commercial postings.

The miniboard is not a commercial for-profit board. We are all putting
this thing together for the benifit of the community.
Fred Martin and the boyz at MIT are giving away the schematics, PCB
layout and software plus a good manual for free. I organised a group
purchase of processors (184 parts) and it's only costing me about
$1.00 each part to provide this service. (That's $184 bux from My pocket)
Parts kits and PCBoards are being made available for very little (Or no)
profit by others on the net.

So I don't appreciate Don advertising his products and berating the 
Miniboard on the net.

It IS appropriate for Don to say that He also builds a 68HC11 board and 
to contact him for more information but PLEASE don't berate other
people's hard work just because you sell a product for profit.

                       -Alan "Just call me picky" Kilian
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 -Alan Kilian           kilian@cray.com 612.683.5499 (Work) 612.721.3990 (Home)
  "Our friend Dirac has his own philosophy. It is:"
  "There is no God and Dirac is His prophet" - Some Physicist
