5 Jan
2005
5 Jan
'05
11:48 a.m.
Simon Jenkins <sjenkins(a)blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
The objective, IMO, would NOT be to produce a
finished, fully
engineered end-product which users could build for themselves. It
would be to produce a reference design with open firmware, open
protocol and open drivers.
Given such a design, companies (possibly very small ones at first)
could produce and market finished hardware. This might be very
similar to the reference design or it might not be, but it would be
compatible with it. They would still be able to differentiate their
products by audio quality, number and types of inputs, packaging and
price etc.
That is exactly what I'm talking about;)
Also, look at other libre hardware
the leon cpu
the manticore gpu
Sites of interest: www.opencores.org
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