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That depends on your unit count. 1 Software-engineer-year, and a $6 product (let's say $3 in bulk) for which the cheapest alternative is $35 in bulk. So let's s
by candiodari 8y ago
That depends on your unit count. 1 Software-engineer-year, and a $6 product (let's say $3 in bulk) for which the cheapest alternative is $35 in bulk. So let's say you take $100k (because it doesn't HAVE to be the bay area), that means you can spend one software engineer year per ~3k units.
That would put just supporting this arch themselves, let's call it 3 software engineers, in range of anyone making 10k devices or more.
That's a lot of people.
That would make this
- oneplane 8y agoIt's not a one-off deal, support in Linux for example means you either need an unconstrained spec and third party maintainers, or having some person support it full time forever (or as long as the devices exist). Unmaintained code gets thrown out, that is why so few companies and projects do it; they are almost always a one-off with a short lifespan.