pk wrote:
 Timothy Miller wrote:
> Yes. More precisely, I'm trying to create a critical mass of open
> hardware designers. Putting graphics and profit aside for a
> moment, I want to create a community of people who work on all
> sorts of interesting open hardware projects. Traversal, with
> permission, can build products out of many of those projects, turn
> over large amounts of profit from them to the OHF, and then OHF can
> use that to foster more community growth.

 How about Linus Torvalds?

http://usmanahmad.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/great-programmers-answersinterview-with-steve-yegge-linus-torvalds-dave-thomas-david-heinemeier-peter-norvig-james-gosling-guido-van-tim-bray/

 See section about fpga.

Interesting. There's also the point that Torvalds has, in some of his comments directed against "anti-tivoization" in GPLv3 suggested that insisting on (or creating) open hardware platforms is the real solution to locked-in platforms like TiVo.

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com

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