On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:07:47AM +0000, Jack Carroll wrote: > Watch out for mayfly parts. Anything OGP releases is going to need a long > production life. One of its target markets is industrial automation, which > generally requires production parts to be available for 10 to 25 years after > design freeze, and field service parts to be available for another decade or > two. A lifetime buy at first production release doesn't cut it.
The same applies for farm equipment, and why I'm on the SoC bandwagon. Why screw around trying to evaluate which vendor that's going to overcharge you now is still going to be around to overcharge you in 40 years. I had bearing go out and wear down a shaft on a combine this fall. Replacement 'vendor' parts would have taken $600 and 2 days to ship, and 75 mile trip to the dealer. We went to the local machine shop and about 2 hours and $150 later we had a replacment. In 30 years I expect that either I will own, or the local fab shop will own a shipping container capable of making one-off 90nm parts and packaging them in a few hours from a silicon mask file. That's one hell of a business case for open-source, down to the silicon mask, hardware. The only question is does someone want to make a shitload of money saving me the trouble to build the shipping container, or am I going to have to do it myself? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
