On Wednesday 18 May 2005 14:35, Patrick McNamara wrote: > For people who may be scskepticalbout the possibility of the > scscenariosimothy, myself, and other feel will happen, go look at all > the articles floating around about grgrayarket, untested, and > remarked RAM chips marking their way into the channel. If Micron > can't stop companies from passing cheap knock-offs of their stuff, > what makes anyone think we can?
Red herring. If the open graphics card project ever got remotely as big as a RAM manufacturer it will have succeeded beyond anybody's wildest dreams. A properly staged GPL release program, where developers making real contributions have _free_ access to the source and can freely distribute it among themselves prior to the GPL release will hold off the knock-off threat. The real threat is that this project will become permanently mired unproductive debate, leaving a total of two workers doing whatever small amount of work actually gets done. Look at the Freenet project to see an example of that. The Freenet project started much like this one, with some real talent involved, but all the talent left eventually. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
