What about license costs for the CE and .NET Micro Framework?

/Ruben

> >
> http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2007/11/15/ce-6-0-for-hobbyists.as=
px
> > Just read this, seems to be interesting.
> >
> > The .NET Micro Framework 2.0 is also interesting.
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/bb267253.aspx
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/bb278106.aspx
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Xiaofan
> =

> =

> This is good news and got me all excited, except that when I started to =

> look for
> a hardware development board, the majority of sites I found did not =

> have prices
> listed, and the ones that did, seem to start at around US $1500 and up.
> =

> For that price, I'd rather strip an older machine I have at home, for =

> example a
> Pentium D ~1.6GHz machine and develop on that.  One could go through the
> trouble of putting CE on it, but why would the hobbyist really want to =

> do that,
> if the stripped pc already runs full copy of XP or Linux?
> =

> Some site out there does have a board for $104, but it's got a 386 cpu =

> and iirc,
> it's running at 33MHz.
> =

> So, for the price of a somewhat nice dev board, you can get yourself 2 =

> or 3 very
> good full pcs and go to town on it.
> =

> The price seems to be ok, if your company is going to pay for it and you'=
ll
> be
> doing real work and over time the company's investment will be recouped, =
but
> I
> don't see this as being very accessible to the average hobbyst, unless I'm
> missing something here (and if I am, I'd like to hear it from you).
> =

> In my case I already have an MSDN license, so I get the SDK's and all of =
the
> goodies, which the $1500 seems to include at least some of it.
> =

> =

> -Mario
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