Comment on Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER?parentComments−brucehoult2yI have very low confidence that it will ever be anything but vapour, given the project leader's previous record e.g. this project fully funded in August 2016 and not yet delivered 7 1/2 years later.https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktopThe project updates (last one in 2020) are painful to read.A competent outfit such as Pine64 or Sipeed can knock a project like this out in 6 months. They could have been subcontracted given the $234k raised.−snvzz2yBefore the micro-desktop, that person was also involved in some KDE/Plasma tablet, which also never shipped.
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I have very low confidence that it will ever be anything but vapour, given the project leader's previous record e.g. this project fully funded in August 2016 and not yet delivered 7 1/2 years later.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
The project updates (last one in 2020) are painful to read.
A competent outfit such as Pine64 or Sipeed can knock a project like this out in 6 months. They could have been subcontracted given the $234k raised.
Before the micro-desktop, that person was also involved in some KDE/Plasma tablet, which also never shipped.