On 5/25/06, Tim Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/24/06, Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That is absolutely true. Only Traversal has full rights. And there
> may be a substantive market for the IP for this thing. But that still
> doesn't stop someone from legally putting me out of business. Trust
> doesn't always mean much in the face of a 30% difference in retail
> price.
>
That brings up an interesting thought... Timothy, have you considered
Traversal as an IP-only design house? Something akin to the ARM
folks, but with designs released under the GPL. That way, the
community could help with design work, others could shoulder the
burden of production costs, and Traversal could sell IP-rights to
folks who want to make modifications _and_ keep secrets (which could
be a substantial market if we're talking integrated graphics - the
entire rest of the 'northbridge' at least).
I have thought that once we have the IP ready, we can license it to
chip vendors and work out a financial deal for us to both make money
from it. We can then have multiple vendors, etc.
The thing is, I think someone mentioned that Bitboys tried this and
were rather unsuccessful.
I expect that when OGD1 prototypes have photos on the web, we'll see a
lot more people taking us seriously. People like to see something
tangible. A lump of Verilog code is not very tangible.
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