[Open-graphics] Speech rewrite, per Lourens' suggestions

[Timothy Normand Miller]

On 7/5/07, Dieter <netbsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote:
> > Motivation
>
>         - Security problems with binary-only drivers

Got it.

> >               - 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?

How about:

- Little guy can implement risky, radical concepts

>
> The future is likely to bring us CPUs and GPUs on the same
> die.  AMD bought ATI, Intel is doing their own.  Perhaps
> some FLOSS-friendly company with a CPU, like Sun or IBM, would
> be interested in OGP?

Possibly, but not so far.  We've had a number of established companies
contact us, and we've even expressed interest in altering our path
(slightly) to accomodate them.  Perhaps we're doing something wrong.
The pattern has become that some companies are willing to work with us
by giving us access to resources and such, but none want to fund us
directly.  Our idea is perhaps just too radical and risky-looking for
them.  As long as their money isn't on the line, they're interested.

> >       - Greater self-sufficiency for FOSS community
>
> Again, this seems to be promoting us-vs-them thinking.

Good point, although I do often feel animosity towards "evil big
companies."  How can we express the idea that we're trying to give the
FOSS community some of their own open designs to work with without
alienating the big guys?

-- 
Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project