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Submission + - EOMA68 Earth-friendly Modular computing campaign hits $50k (crowdsupply.com) 9

Submitted by lkcl on Friday July 29, 2016 @06:39PM

lkcl writes: The EOMA68 Crowd-funding campaign launched last month and has just reached $50,000 and so far has 541 backers with 28 days still to go. EOMA68 and its creator have featured regularly on slashdot over the past five years: a live-streamed video from Hope2016 explains what it's about, and there is a huge range of discussions and articles online. The real burning question is: if a single Software Libre Engineer can teach themselves PCB design and bring modular computing to people on the budget available from a single company, why are there not already a huge number of companies doing modular upgradeable hardware?

Comment Re:Justice delayed is Justice denied. (Score 2, Insightful) 374

by philthechill on Saturday October 25, 2003 @01:15PM (#7308488) Attached to: Judge Examines Microsoft Settlement Progress

Boy does this ever miss the point.

The point of a justice system is not to punish the guilty as a deterrent. The point of a justice system is to prevent the victims from punishing the guilty and their family and their family's family.

The victims could punish the guilty just fine, and that would be a strong deterrent, probably stronger than the current US justice system, but this leads to the whole Hatfields vs. McCoys thing, back and forth retribution. In order to maintain an orderly society it is necessary to prevent direct retribution.

I do agree with you about the problem with antitrust remediation penalties though - there needs to be some punitive as well as preventative penalties. On the other hand, if Judge Kelly is starting to realize that the preventative measures aren't working, perhaps she'll think some more about breaking up MS...

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