>Fabio Pesari <[email protected]> writes: > Fortunately crowdfunding exists, so we could gather those resources > simply by paying for them, just like everybody else in the industry does! > > The free software movement must quit the mentality that it should rely > on volunteer contributions, for its own good. There's no reason a free > software supporter has to support themselves by working another day job > which often involves creating proprietary stuff (and signing NDAs and > non-competing clauses which prevent them from doing more); the only way > to get leading experts on things like hardware design is to hire them, > because they aren't as plentiful as programmers and can find a job at a > big company pretty easily.
Read the financial results of companies like Intel, and search the R&D part. > And free software supporters should also be more willing to donate their > money regularly to organizations like the FSF and SFConservancy and to > the people who develop the software they use daily. Here I agree with you. > I am no hardware expert but these might interest you: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRISC > http://www.lowrisc.org/ In realizing CPUs you have to do two things: I) Project the ISA; II) Implement the microarchitecture. Then, you have to build the chip. Now, this requires a lot of time, resources, and then you have to modify all the software you want to port on your architecture. > Sadly, it seems like RISC-V has already been co-opted by Google, HP and > Oracle, but hopefully everything they produce will be released under a > free license so this might not be a big deal. > Well, I am not so sure. -- Giuseppe Molica - Collaborator at www.unixmen.com - Collaborator at www.lupokkio.it "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - Juvenal You won't find me on Facebook. See https://stallman.org/facebook.html
