On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:41 +0000, carmen wrote: > > how expensive is a firewire port ? > > firewire stuff is THE niche to fill. > > most newer firewire devices are not supported if if i understand > > correctly. > > yeah this would be where my interest is as well. somehow i dont believe the 2 > million figure (maybe designing a video card from scratch, and printing it > up) . i mean can't you just go to whatever factory in Shenzen is churning out > crap for Behringer and have them slap a GNU label on it and ship it with > schematics and open source drivers? >
I think it's probably the old story, of "it will cost you $2 million to fab your first board, after that it's 25 cents each" ;-) Lee
