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

[luc marschall]

Le jeudi 05 juillet 2007 à 12:28 +0100, Dieter a écrit :
> > > > >               - 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".
> 
> Of course some companies *like* high barriers to entry.
That's true, but after they have entered.
I don't think that one should talk buisness directly because it's not
just a matter of dollars but also a matter of knowledge.
"Barriers to entry" is an economic wording, a threshold is a threshold,
that includes all the aspects of a buisness.
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