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SubjectRe: Open source hardware
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:11:20PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> I've been reading some of the threads about the GPL, and binary-only
> drivers, and I'm suprised that nobody has brought up open source
> hardware, (or rather, the lack of it).
[...]
> So, basically, the idea is to design a low-cost,
> low-computational-power CPU, which works well in multi-processor
> configurations, and make the specification open source. Anybody could
> make the processors, and building a machine of a given computational
> power would be cheaper using them than using conventional CPUs.
>
> I personally expect to see this within 10 years.

You're behind the times :)

http://www.opencores.org/
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