On 1/10/06, Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/10/06, Vinicius Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not only open specifications, but open RTL. A different kind of > > acessibility. > > If too many people get complacent and think that OGA is going to be > "bug-free" just because it's open source, then not enough people will > test it, and it won't be bug-free. > > Also, remember that the only way that the RTL for OGA will be released > BEFORE the chip is if some philanthropist plops $2 million in our laps > with few strings attached. Otherwise, any normal business willing to > invest that kind of money is barely going to be willing to release the > RTL after a time delay. (Another possibility is if Traversal makes at > least $2 million in profit from other products such as OGD.) > > Developing and testing OGA won't be an easy process. It'll be a lot > like, say, using Gmail Beta. Plenty of people will test it, and we'll > listen to bug reports, but only a select few will get to see the > source code before it's too late. > > Does that suck? Of course it does. I'm not sure how much it would > help to release the RTL early, but it would certainly help SOME. I > just gotta find $2 million! Let me see if I have that sitting in my > closet somewhere. :) > Yeah, I'm thinking in the long long run. Because I know $2 million will be just the start when this kicks in. :)
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