Re: build a hack box of choice?

Seems if someone really wanted to accomplish this, the idea would be choose
a reference design, design the firmware, contract some company in tiawan to
mass produce the units, with the specific firmware.... in volume, cost would
probably be $20 per unit or less... then sell them as specifically openAP
routers complete with source code, make them geek friendly.  I'm sure there
would be a pretty good market for them... enough so that you could probably
find a source of venture capital to get it off the ground.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruno Lopes F. Cabral" <[email protected]>
To: "Linux Access Point Development" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: [LinuxAP-dev] build a hack box of choice?


> Price?
>
> about the EOLd, the problem is Moore's law. one year-1 1/2
> after the release of a hardware revision, components start
> to be difficult to find, newer powerfull versions come to
> live and so on
>
> so consider 18 months as the maximum lifetime for new
> soho-routers. you will still be able to find them up to 6
> months after that, but they will be mostly factory outlets
>
> Cheers
> !3runo
>
> Francois Gurin wrote:
> > How would such hardware differ from soekris and openbrick?
> >
> > --francois
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:03:36AM -0700, Scott Serr wrote:
> >>To clarify what I am thinking a little...  What if XYZ company could
> >>supply you with hardware that is almost like the SOHO router that you
> >>are porting to, but XYZ company adds widget A to make it hackable.  And
> >>they try to have a long run without EOLing so fast.
> >>
> >>Basically XYZ would obtain or build the super hackable SOHO you want,
> >>give it to you at a decent price and in a limited way support the
> >>hacking and Linux porting that you guys do.
> >>
> >>-Scott
>
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