Op di, 14-12-2004 te 02:24 +0000, schreef Andrew Suffield: > 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.
Not quite. To design software, all you need is a fully functional computer. To design hardware, you need to create and test a prototype every once in a while. That'll cost you. -- Wouter Verhelst NixSys BVBA Louizastraat 14, 2800 Mechelen T:+32 15 27 69 50 / F:+32 15 27 60 51 / M:+32 486 836 198
