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If you have an engineer who's paid $100 000 a year with three weeks vacation, that's 407.05 a day. It starts to make sense that you'd buy $4000 IP for an operat
by davemp 8y ago
If you have an engineer who's paid $100 000 a year with three weeks vacation, that's 407.05 a day. It starts to make sense that you'd buy $4000 IP for an operating system, unless by some ungodly powers they can write that in less than 10 days.
- forgottenpass 8y agoI see what you're trying to say, but the analogy doesn't exactly work. Everyone still uses a COTS operating systems because the cost of building one from scratch is so high. We're lucky that the market provides multiple free options, but if it didn't the rational business move for most projects would be to license one.
- vmchale 8y agoIt's also worth noting that are clear examples of closed-source software that essentially acted like malware. I've not heard of any such examples with IP cores.
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