On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:57:19PM -0500, Brendan wrote: > 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.
Right back at you. > > 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. I don't care about it. It's the people who want it done badly enough to whine about it on public mailing lists who should go do it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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