[korethr]

While I agree with you, the average buyer of computer components is used to spending an order of magnitude less on a motherboard. A person can go to their usual source of computer parts and pick up a motherboard for a couple hundred USD at the high end. A few thousand USD for motherboard that does not offer an order of magnitude improvement in raw speed or expandability is going to be a very hard sell.

[wolfgke]

The question is rather: Is there a large overlap between the people who can afford to spend thousands of dollars for a free (as freedom) POWER8 workstation and the open source idealists who would love to buy such a free device?