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Just crowdsource a few billion $ for R&D and we are good to go.
by kowdermeister 9y ago
Just crowdsource a few billion $ for R&D and we are good to go.
- amelius 9y agoThe first and most important phases of hardware design are a lot like software development. If open source folks can write an OS without much funding, then they can design a CPU.
- jrimbault 9y agoArguably, the most important phase of hardware design is actual production of said design.
- amelius 9y agoI somewhat doubt that is still the case, with modern EDA tools.
- maxerickson 9y agoI think they were maybe making a joke about whether you want to use the chip or not.
- jrimbault 9y agoI think I mostly meant to hint at the [financial] difficulties of producing (and distributing) computer cpus at scale. And that a product which exists only on paper doesn't really exists.
- sannee 9y ago> If open source folks can write an OS without much funding, then they can design a CPU Large open source projects tend to have significant amount of funding - think about Chrome, OpenJDK, the Linux Kernel...
- mtgx 9y agoI don't know if you're joking, but that may not even be an impossible task if say OpenBSD were to create a cryptocurrency for their OS, as long as they tried to make it as legal as possible and try to see it more like a crypto-asset/stock kind of thing than a "digital ponzi scheme." Seems to have worked for the IPFS guys (I'm talking about existing projects that only launched a cryptocurrency later on, rather than from the start). Brave's BAT qualifies for that, too.