Linux on access technology

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Profitable for non-profits is a project that succeeds in interesting the
donors who fund the organization, or if the sales produce enough profit.

The main difference between for-profits and non-profits is that the
non-profits cannot retain earnings for reinvestment, so they have to get
rid of profits by paying board members and executives or spending on
capital equipment.

Some non-profits are running over with money that they have to spend.  If
one of those is around, get them interested.

Have fun,

David
On May 28, 2016 9:13 AM, "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> wrote:

> I'm not concerned whether or not it's sufficfiently profitable for
> commercial business. There are plenty of nonprofits that would take this
> up, if the value could be demonstrated.
>
> The forthcoming approx $500 braille device coming from APH is an
> example. It will also be a note taker, apparently.
>
>
> Janina
>
> Gregory Nowak writes:
> > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 03:36:41AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > This is a pretty sound idea, imo. If we had a box with speakers,
> braille
> > > keyboard, basic other IO like RJ45, audio, etc., but could simply swap
> > > in mb from time to time to pick up on enhanced cpu, ram, etc., wouldn't
> > > that be pretty future proof?
> >
> > Yup, but I can only see a nonprofit or an individual creating such an
> > option. No for profit company would go for it. Can you imagine the
> > loss in revenue if in order to upgrade all a user had to do is to
> > replace the mobo on their own? Let's take it further. What if the
> > entire thing including case and hardware could be printed on a 3d
> > printer, and the stl files were freely available? Keep the cost of the
> > entire thing down to $200 maybe $300 per unit. Allow a bit more if the
> > user wanted a braille display, maybe those could be 3d printed some
> > day too. I wonder if someone started something like that on
> > kickstarter, if it would take off?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
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