[Gnuk-users] Seeedstudio website

[NIIBE Yutaka]

On 04/17/2016 07:52 AM, Yui Hirasawa wrote:
> Today I noticed that the Seeedstudio wiki now also blocks Tor. It used
> to be that only the store blocked Tor but it looks like they've started
> using CloudFlare for the wiki as well.
> 
> I think it's against the interest of people using FST-01 for Gnuk that
> they cannot access the wiki page or the store using Tor. It would be
> better to sell open hardware in some store that respects the users more.

Thank you for sharing the information.

OK, I'll move the information of FST-01 and FSM-55 to gniibe.org.

It was in 2011, when I was pretty luckily meeting (on the net) the
people at Seeed at the early stage of their evolution.  FST-01 (in
September 2012) and FSM-55 (August 2014) were manufactured by Seeed
Technology, with no physical meeting, at all.  It was in May 2015, I
finally visited the office of Seeed.  So far, so good.

As I wrote in the previous post of mine, Seeed are changing somehow
(because of external investment, I suppose).  Well, I don't know if
the outcome will be good for us.

My current conclusion is... I started to learn Mandarin Chinese for
better communication.  That's the thing what I could do.

My gut feeling is that it is negotiable in many cases, in China.
Sometimes it works, even if the size of profit is not that big (like
FST-01 production and sales).


The situation is not best for us (those who care freedom of
computing), but I still have some hope.  While I don't think it's good
thing to recommend Raspberry Pi series to novice users, I understand
it would be more sales at the store.  I think that developing and
selling BeagleBone Green (which doesn't assume use of proprietary GPU)
is good.  Ideally, use of the chip without proprietary GPU is best,
though.
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