Le jeudi 07 septembre 2006 à 10:34 +0100, Dieter a écrit : > > I'm getting the feeling that it's going to take a lot more work to > > convince people either that there's a real problem with Free Software > > support from hardware vendors or that we're seriously capable of > > addressing the problem. The both are true. > > The lack of documentation problem is well known. Yes, but that miss the point. The reality is that hardware vendors don't need FOSS to sell theirs products, as well as the history shows that the OSs which gain in popularity provide the hardware too, by a mean or an other. AFAIK the sole synergy nowadays between hardware and free OS is on the ppc architecture: PegasOS + MorphOS |linux distro. Though, I guess that the hardware compatibility problem remains as well. Concerning Linux or BSD, that end up in the binary hot topic and/or a costly reverse engineering. So, either the FS obtains a pool of hardware vendors, either it miss the train and spend time to stay on the course. May be FS should learn that "There are no software"; I have found that here : http://www.1010.co.uk/free_fpga_guide.html See also the A. Thompson's works (a pointer is provided on the page) > > I suspect that there will be a lot more interest once the consumer (*) > product(s) become available to purchase. Just human nature. Yes, as Tim say: OGC will be the killer (and OGD a proof of feasibility) Though, it seems hard to sustain the production of open hardware and that's what people certainly conclude in the end. For the wiki page starting with The Open Collector, I've tried to find some other sources and project, but I retrieve always the same sources and it's more difficult to find some hardware projects, though, they're not especially done as "open hardware". Of course, I don't pretend to have found all the stuff. > > (*) I don't consider OGD to be a "consumer" product, but more of a tool > or a product for research and special applications. > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) >
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