On Monday 13 December 2004 14:50, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > My surmise is that we'd need an effort like that, raising $250K, to > > design and go to full-custom fabrication of an FPLA with fully-open > > design. > > Mine is that one can get useful things done without having to spend > ridiculous amounts of money, or even any money at all. Yours is that > you can't. Debian proves you wrong every day.
What does that have to do with hardware, please? I mean, it's a lovely statement and all, but it's wrong. > There is absolutely no reason why any money is needed for this. Design > the damn thing. Somebody will want to produce it. Manufacturing > companies would *leap* at the opportunity to make widely desireable > chips with zero royalty costs. "Somebody" and "widely desirable". Ok, do it and report back, soldier.
