On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:11:38 -0500
"Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But no one should want to buy OGD1 to get a graphics card. They might
> get one if they want to help DESIGN a graphics card, however.
Exactly. The problem is, how do we manage the PR, that
1) We can sell an FPGA board, while
2) promoting the development of an graphics card
> Absolutely. How do we get started on that.
Define a target, open up some bank accounts, register a paypal
account and finaly set up a web page.
I doubt that defining 2mio is a good target. There is not
that much money around in the community for a graphics card IMHO.
Maybe something in the 100k range is something that can be
achieved. But what would we target then?
Bank accounts should be somewhat spread over the world. Especialy
if you know the troubles to send money from europe to the states.
I could set up here a swiss bank account, which would give all that
a nice coloring ;)
> There has been some controversy over my desire to time-delay the GPL
> release of the RTL (for the engine core; the rest is much earlier).
> This is mostly done as a way to make potential partners feel like
> we've got something of value that's worth money to get.
Keep that this way until there is really enough money to
open it up.
> If we could get the community to totally pay for the chip development,
> there would be no need for that delay. The whole thing could be
> developed completely in the open from day negative infinity.
I really doubt that we can make that much money, although i've
been surprised how fast how much money MPlayer got in their found
raising (ok, the target was just a few thousand USD for a new server,
but still)
Attila Kinali
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