Ask HN: How can we make the ubuntu edge campaign achieve its target?
With only 66 hours left and 20+ million to be raised, can we somehow make the campaign achieve the target?
So all you're paying for is exclusivity, which is incredibly shallow.
Technology should be open and equally available to as many as possible. Not an elite hipster club.
EDIT: I just noticed the incredible irony of Canonical making an exclusive platform, wow. Monetise your product with a physical handset sure, great. We understand you need to earn a living off Ubuntu somehow. But don't completely reverse your company philosophy to do it.
(As near as I can tell, you're either upset that they plan to manufacture a limited number of phones, which makes sense as they are not intending to get into the hardware business long-term and intend this to drive innovation, or because they're using an OS that so far is not on other phones, which is how you enter a market. Neither one seems like some calculated evil to me.)