Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Monday 11 April 2005 03:12, Rene Herman wrote:
You are blindly assuming here that the "enthusiast market" and the "ASIC market" are something very different.
They are.
No they are not. You are projecting yourself much too widely -- they are only different after you've defined "enthusiast" as "hardware tinkerer". I am not the latter but am the former, proving that's not a sensible thing to do.
There's many sorts of enthusiasts: we seem to be of different types for example. The primary objective of this project (producing a videocard with open specifications) is something which I very much want to see happen but personally I don't necessarily care about the innards of the chip. Given enough interface documentation, I don't _need_ to care. What a relief! I get to care only when I actually feel like it! This in fact is the entire point.
You obviously do care about the innards and for those sunday afternoons when I also do -- sure, the more information and opportunities for tinkering the merrier so please don't take this reply as anything other than me objecting against seeing general FPGA tinkering as an _objective_ of this project. It is not, nor should it be as far as I'm concerned.
As Timothy said earlier (1), their own research indicates ASIC, embedded and retail, and I fully trust that research. That same message says how the FPGA enthusiasts are not being left behind. Wonderful bonus.
Do you use Linux? Do you hack there kernel? No? Well you do know where you'd be if nobody hacked the kernel for you, don't you?
It's the same with this card, only more so.
No it's not, and the difference lies in this being first and foremost a commercial project. According to your logic ATI and nVidia and all those other companies producing chips the general public can't hack on would be bankrupt. Lo' and behold -- they are not.
A commercial project with support and involvement from the open source community, support other companies don't have. As far as I can judge from the list messages, you yourself seem to be a good example of how that support is valuable so I would say there's only bonuses (2).
Rene.
(1) http://lists.duskglow.com/open-graphics/2005-February/002387.html
(2) notice me kissing up to you in an attempt to stop this disagreement? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
