On 8/22/05, Mattes Sarcander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > But I'll tell you this: If a big chunk of money were to come out of > > nowhere, or we were to sell so many Unity boards that we ended up with > > a few million $ in profit, the GPL code would come out at the same > > time the Clarity boards hit the shelves. I have no particular desire > > to keep anything secret for any longer than necessary. > > Some time ago there was a discussion about the option of binding > advance orders (for the Clarity boards). Has that been in discussion > internally at Traversal since then? > I can imagine that the relative amount of administrative cost is > quite a bit higher with many 'micro-investors' than with one or a few > big ones. OTOH, something like 2000 pre-orders would certainly > represent an amount of money worth of calculating with, methinks.
This is true. 2000 pre-orders would certainly help. But the initial ASIC production run is 100k units. We expect to sell most of the units for embedded systems, letting the open source community benefit from the economy of scale. (And the embedded community benefits from Free development kits, etc.) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
