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charlus on Aug 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ubuntu Edge price dropped to $695

On this note - does anyone know the reasons Canonical went with Indiegogo rather than Kickstarter for this? Given that it's fixed funding anyway.

glitch003 on Aug 8, 2013 [–]

Kickstarter requires hardware projects to have a working prototype, which Ubuntu does not have.

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