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Linux built up over time with zero upfront investment, starting with Torvalds in his bedroom. Silicon fabrication requires gigantic amounts of cash upfront. I'
by floatboth 7y ago
Linux built up over time with zero upfront investment, starting with Torvalds in his bedroom. Silicon fabrication requires gigantic amounts of cash upfront.
I'm talking about the barrier to entry.
- brianwawok 7y agoTime is a barrier to entry. You don't think Torvalds could have gotten paid for programming in the time he spent writing Linux? What is the sum of all the time invested into Linux * the average hourly rate?
- floatboth 7y agoThat's not what "barrier to entry" means. Entry is not making 2019 Linux. Entry is making something. I can write a tiny blog engine in a day on my existing computer. I can't walk into Global Foundries and ask them to make me a single wafer of my tiny microcontroller on their 14nm process. Hobby software is on the same playing field as pro software, and can smoothly become pro software like Linux did. Hobby silicon is on the 1970s playing field - Jeri Ellsworth and Sam Zeloof making a few transistors with size measured in micrometers. There is literally no way to make your own "hello world" in modern performance silicon.
- jsjohnst 7y agoAre you trying to start an argument? Comes across that way if not.