On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 08:31 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > On Monday 11 April 2005 07:20, 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. > > > > Stop right there. It is entirely because of tinkerers like me that we > > have open source projects at all, so that enthusiasts like you can have > > the benefits. > > The concept you are still failing to grasp is the difference between > software and hardware tinkerers. I fully expect that to be because you > are both but many people are not. I am not, meaning that at the very > least I can assure you there _is_ a difference. > > Equating "enthusiast market" with "FPGA market" as you did makes no > sense given that difference. The FPGA market is a sub-market of the > enthusiast market with all the sofware tinkerers another, only partly > intersecting, sub-market. I won't go so far as to pull numbers out of > the air but since there are simply many more software tinkerers than > there are hardware tinkerers I'd say this latter sub-market is actually > significantly bigger. > > >>There's many sorts of enthusiasts: we seem to be of different types > >>for example. > > > > That is true. Since you are the sort of enthusiast who just wants to > > wait until a cheap asic version arrives, why are you arguing with me, > > who is the sort of enthusiast who will help make your cheap ASIC a > > reality? > > You are positioning me here as a profiteer which is a very childish > thing to do.
No. He isn't. Now will you please shut up or take this off list. I have my own opinions about who is more right, but at this point I would rather sit on them than say something that starts a new round of sniping. If you can find common ground off-list, feel free to let us know about it. :-P I'm pretty sure Timothy knows where you guys stand by now, and in the end it's his decision. Yeesh. Ray (Yes, I know I'm not God, or some sort of list enforcer, but I really don't think this thread is helping anyone) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
