So er... what exactly are they charging for "commodore OS" and are they making sources to the components they did not create themselves available, in compliance with the GPL?
If so, where?
Complete the reselling scheme looks like easy way to build a distro net, but:
a) Initally reseller has to buy 10 barebones, that is ~$3400 investment that
gives just the case and BD ROM drive. He also determines end price,good news is that every even smaller dealer can get config cheaper then CUSA offer, even with $340 loss over case + licencing costs CUSA will extra charge
b) There will be a confusion on model naming and will and how Mint support exactly all possible combinations
c) Its questionable whether you can resell COS which isn`t exact intellectual property of CUSA without agreement with Mint team
b) Since suppliers will deal with all guarantees CUSA name worldwide depends on their reliablity
Its kind of win win for CUSA (licence and COS fee, barebone profit) without any responsibility or support to end dealer or user. Imagine OS support will be up to each and every dealer.
Again, just the profits, not too much work, just maintaining the webshop orders and sending cases and promo to "dealers". Will see how many will appear and stay in their own business generally working for CUSA profit more then for their own.
Its at the same time MLM genious and very unreliable scheme for dealers and end customers, no quality testing or real support.
But we need to love Leos optimism
Quote:
I We have received thousands of requests worldwide for such a program,
They never receive just few requests or sell few machines even its obviously small startup company
