Hi Gianfranco, welcome, I appreciate your comments.
The Lexicon MPX550 was purely
one example (as I said myself when I first mentioned it), the fact is you can get second-hand professional quality multi-FX units
all the time on ebay or craigslist or other similar sites for well under $200 (or under 150 Euros).
There are many units available with guitar level inputs too, not only line level inputs.
Gianfranco wrote:- the MOD Linux related software is all open source but the hardware and the firmware are not. Not yet. We are trying to build a hardware company and, different from software companies, hardware require huge sums of money to take off. After an eventually successful Kickstarter we will go for an Venture Capital investment round and the Open Hardware might cause some troubles in this process.
So to put it in a few words, you are simply another hardware manufacturer
using Linux and open source software for your own profit, just like Korg for example does with their Kronos workstations (that run Linux inside) or Google with Android or in fact loads of other gadget manufacturers.
There is nothing wrong with that of course, most FOSS licences after all allow this, but
in this thread the wrong impression was given that you are the "first Full Open Source Hardware Vendor" (as tramp said in post #7) which couldn't be further from the truth.
I'm sure tramp did not make this statement to deceive us, but because he simply was confused himself.
So thanks for clearing this up.
To conclude, while your project is interesting in principle, I stand by my opinion that it's overpriced for what you get when compared to the competition and from a FOSS point of view I don't see any particular reason why I should support you any more than I should support Korg or Google.