Re: [cobalt-users] Why did Cobalt use custom Hardware?

[Greg Boehnlein <damin@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Matt Darnell wrote:

> 
> > > I can only come up with two reasons.
> > > 1.Create an image, make it seem more than just software.  Create a
> > > dependancy on Cobalt.
> > > 2.They had the money and thought they could mass produce enough to make
> it
> > > worth their while.
> >
> > We would pay the same amount of money only for their software/gui. But we
> > will not spend any cent on their crap hardware.
> 
> I really like the inteface.  It was put together well.  I wonder if they
> could port it to white box hardware.  I guess we'd still be in a pickle for
> updates.

I don't know.. I ported the Raq4 OS load to run on a Vmware session.

See the following: 
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2003-January/085357.html

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