Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:36:34 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Open source hardware |
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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 :)
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