'It Will Be Hard to Compete'
"Good for Intel to support creative thinking through Linux!" Google+ blogger Rodolfo Saenz told Linux Girl. "From projects like these brilliant people like Linus Torvalds or Steve Jobs become interested in technology and new Innovators are born."
Indeed, "this can only be a good thing," agreed Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone. "Competition is good. It may tank or it may push other players out of the market, but the market will get to decide.
"Unfortunately, there's still a lot of unknowns regarding this board, one of which is the price," Stone added. "It's said that the Galileo will be under $60, but it will be hard to compete with Pi if its entry point is over twice as much."
The fear for Intel is that "they will lose market share to ARM-based products," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told Linux Girl. "This is an attempt to head that off, and the rest of us benefit from a wider array of development boards.