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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy
EARL was a crowdfunding campaign, but different from Kickstarter or the like in the sense that it was all strictly done in house. This has lead to a three year opera of mismanagement, false starts and direction changes with no accountability.
In saying such, I still have some limited hope for the EARL project, and as an original backer, I'm not trying to get a refund (which is offered) more out of curiosity than anything else. The last update showed some promise with the new alliance with Netronix (July of 2015 http://www.meetearl.com/updates/) but the overall bungling of the project is a tough one to swallow. |
It's a classic illustration of the difficulty of going from demonstration hardware to commercial production. They certainly weren't the first, and probably won't be the last, to massively underestimate the difficulty of that step.