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First of all those boards dont cost Genesi $299 that is the retail price.
Freescale/MobileGT pay a price for the board to sponsor you. It is not BOM cost. You are costing them money at the end of the day, not Genesi, if your project proposal is weak.
Remember this is NOT a giveaway, it is a sponsored developer program. There are rules; ones we haven't written down on the website because I thought they were pretty obvious. They will be soon though, as it seems that most people have trouble writing more than a sentence as project proposal, and think just for writing 2 lines they will get $300 worth of hardware and technical support for absolutely nothing.
It costs Genesi money to run the program, too. Who do you think pays my salary? How long do you think it took to write the website, and then the time it took to review all the projects?
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Secondly, Genesi ultimately benifits in that they get a whole showcase for their new product and a bunch of geeks working away for no pay.
Ah. So, because we get something out of it, you can do what you like, get free boards paid for by Freescale, and you don't think you need to make ANY effort to justify it beyond saying "I want a free board so I can do [add 5 more words]"?
That just isn't how it works, Thomas.