What do you mean by "the way of commerce"? I am genuinely curious. If you are implying that this is done for monetary gain, I implore you to take a look at what has been done and be honest with yourself. If you were involved in or responsible for coming up with the fix for the Karma, my hat is off to you. However, my question for you is what good is a means to repair Karmas if it is restricted to only the people with the equipment and technical knowledge and ability to perform the repair? The goal of this project is to make repair available to anyone, regardless of their background or ability. As an engineer, I take great pride in having the ability to look at a problem or process and coming up with a way to make it faster and easier. This does just that, it makes it easier and available to anyone. I hope you can appreciate that.
Hi, It's unfortunate that everyone isn't willing to do the fix for free, people expect that they get some sort of payment for their time. I do the repair for free, some do it for 20 or 30 dollars and some charge a lot more. If you go and look at the breakdown in the price on the order form you will see that Josh is basically setting it at cost price. There is no mark up for the labor that he puts into assembling the board, testing it and then sending it off. I'm sure you are aware of how many hours it would have taken in research and design. Normally a company would recoup these costs through the sale cost, but this is not the case. The price is more than if you were to go and buy all the parts and build your own. The big difference is that this board is fully functional out of the box (with none of the soldering issues we see) and it requires no soldering which means many more people can do the fix themselves. Initial feedback is very positive in relation to the success rate.
