[Open-graphics] Getting more exposure for OGP

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Thu Oct 12 20:24:33 EDT 2006


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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