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Maximilian Hohmann · 11-18-2018, 12:02 PM

Hello!

(11-18-2018 10:15 AM)eg64293 Wrote: After all those years, eventually 1 person out of 7.5 billion people was found being willing to contribute software-wise. Doesn't really match the excitement about this project observed here else, does it? What do you think?

I think that this is due to the somewhat troubled history of this project. A short time after the conclusion of the predecessor project "WP34", brainstorming towards the successor had started on this forum (maybe somewhere else es well, but I am not aware of that). Then, for some reason still unknown to me - and most others as well I guess - the "W" part of "WP" got himself banned from this forum for lifetime. Thereby the link between the basis of possible contributors (and future users) of this product and it's project management got severed. In short words: Nobody ever asked anyone of us if we would be willing to program for this project.

As I understand it from watching the video, "WP43" is now going to be a commercial product instead of the kind of community project that WP34 was.
The hardware will be supplied as-is by Swiss Micros and the software is written by a contracted developer (Martin Lorang) - which is the only thing that makes sense in that environment.

We can only wait and see what comes out of it. A Swiss Micros DM42 (i.e. the hardware part) costs 200 Euros already. Distributing the cost of getting the software made over a (probalbly) small number of units will bring the price up to eye-watering levels, I'm afraid. But maybe not - who knows?

Regards
Max