Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268688AbUJUSMP (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:12:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270775AbUJUSKw (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:10:52 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:50954 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270711AbUJUSDV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:03:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4177FCAA.4040907@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:15:06 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Lang CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? References: <4176E08B.2050706@techsource.com> <4177CBD5.2030003@techsource.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1848 Lines: 48 David Lang wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Timothy Miller wrote: > >> David Lang wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Timothy Miller wrote: >>> >>> since nobody has done this yet (for video cards anyeay) there is no >>> proof one way or the other. >> >> >> Well, if Tech Source management decides that this project isn't worth >> the effort, you'll have a small piece of circumstantial evidence that >> leans toward "it's not viable". I personally want to find a way to >> make it work. >> >> To the open source community, this is a golden opportunity to directly >> influence the design of a piece of hardware which fits their ideals. >> For me personally, this is a golden opportunity to work on a project >> from which I'll derive an immense amount of enjoyment. For both >> accounts, I'm desperate to find a way to make it work. :) >> > > Tim, in this case you are not just testing the openess idea, you are > also testing the low-volume, high-cost, but flexible idea. and that idea > has never had a large market > > you are in something of a catch-22 here. due to the risk you can only do > things with a relativly small initial investment, but with a larger > initial investment you could make much cheaper (and therefor much more > popular) cards. where's a billionare looking to Do Good Things (TM) when > you need one ;-) Yeah! I wonder if there are any rich investors reading this right now who would like to invest in this project. :) I'm sure the CEO would be elated to have that happen! :) Based on past experience, I think a few million dollars would do it. :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/