On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 7:54 AM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> Not in that light, but would sinking the pi foundation make us look any > better? I think not. the rule i go by is that of the "bill of ethics" [1] - which is both simple and puzzling at the same time. if you're familiar with the "New Law" Robots from Roger Allen MacBride's books, it's a bit like that: whilst it is unethical to do "harm", it is also unethical to *support* someone to do "harm"... therefore it is "permitted" to *withdraw* resources (time, energy, money and intelligence enhancers) as a means to reduce the influence and effectiveness of any person or group doing "harm". > But I'm not trying to white wash them either. IP > theft is the mode of the times it seems. But,if you want a high > performance gpio that can run a short spi bus at 50 megabaud, where else > are you going to get it besides broadcom? i've done quite a lot of embedded work: i'm a big fan of the STM32F series, and many of them are well under $2. STM NUCLEO boards retail for under $10. i way, waaay prefer to have a separate embedded processor with its own greatly-simplified firmware, then communicate with that over a serial bus to send it commands (or a fast bus if needed). with simpler firmware (embedded into onboard FLASH) the risk of a crash is greatly reduced, and recovery/restart time even if it does is well under a second. > > ... you see how that works? the wrong decision here, debian gets to > > completely destroy what is already a fragile ecosystem, just for > > "convenience". > > There is also TANSTAAFL. But you will do as pure as you can and according > to the debian bylaws, and I admire that greatly, its a very large part > of why I'm here. But you did ask the question, and I gave you 2 cents > worth of the real world where we need to just get the job done to the > best of the hardware's ability. appreciated. it's a tough call, i know. > And "we" are not doing a very good job > of exploiting the hardware we can buy today. the best assembly-level programmers used to be from russia... why? because they couldn't get the hardware (Cold War), so had to squeeze as much out of what they had as they could. > But I've said my piece, so won't hassle you about it anymore in this > thread. I might still complain even, but thats how it is. And its not > your fault so please don't take it personal, its certainly not intended > to be. > > Take care and stay well, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton. you too, gene. l. [1] https://www.titanians.org/the-bill-of-ethics/