Re: If you really want Free firmware...
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 02:26:46AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:43:37AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Manufacturing an ASIC involves NRE (non-recurring engineering) costs
> > of hundreds of thousands to millions per revision. A manufacturing
> > company is going to need to see a pretty good market before they
> > invest that in an open design.
>
> Manufacturing an operating system involves NRE costs of hundreds of
> thousands to millions per revision.
>
> Oh, wait. Actually, that's just *one* way of doing it. And yet you're
> quoting Redmond propaganda as if it were the only truth.
Redmond propaganda about ASIC manufacturing? eh?
You haven't got the faintest idea what you're talking about, have you?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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