Hello, On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Dieter wrote: > > > > > - Hardware not interesting to big companies > > > > > > > > Huh? Do you really want to tell big companies to go away? > > > > Perhaps some mutually beneficial arrangement can be found? > > > > > > We're not saying that hardware isn't interesting to big companies. > > > We're saying that the FOSS way opens up opportunities for smaller > > > companies to produce hardware products that aren't as interesting to > > > the bigger companies. > > > > > > How can we say this better? > > > > I suggest: > > "lowered the threshold for small companies producing hardware" > > or > > "Threshold lowered for small companies producing hardware" > > Or perhaps "lowers barrier to entry".
Do you want to focus on the business side? If not, maybe say something in the direction "make graphics card design know-how commonplace"? Just like nowadays lots of companies have their own in-house software development because their are always things that only they themselves need and there is no way they can buy it there might be a chance they can do the same with hardware one day. And the price IMO is not such a big argument, in the production industry the all the time build their own big, real-hardware machines that are very costly (know the prices of a SPS (maybe 300 EUR for a very simple one, I think you can spend more that 1000 EUR easily) or even just a "normal" 24V industrial power supply (> 100 EUR)?), it is IMO just the PC-hardware that extremely few customize. Probably mostly due to lack of knowledge and easy to buy components. Possible advantage of emphasizing on in-house stuff is nobody has to get scared because it doesn't mean competition ;-). Greetings, Reimar Döffinger _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
