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What's the point of an open source operating system? Most people buy their computing device with the OS installed, so the cost is marginal.
by worklogin 12y ago
What's the point of an open source operating system? Most people buy their computing device with the OS installed, so the cost is marginal.
- PinguTS 12y agoYou are not from the hardware business? In hardware design you cannot build a "minimal viable product" and then do "continuous integration" from that on. A hardware product either works within its defined limits or it doesn't. Then, depending on your limitations, you need additional approval by FCC, FDA, and such organizations within the US alone. The same thing then with their counterparts in every different country. Chip design is then the next level up. Because changing a mask later on, because you found a bug, means you produced a million chips just for the dust bin. That means the entry barrier into hardware, especially chips, is very high.
- worklogin 12y agoReading your comment fully (something I should have done), I see you address the differences in the analogy. Sorry. Perhaps the cost situation will change over time. Perhaps, in coming decades, the ability to fab microchips will itself become something achievable for thousands instead of millions of dollars. And as for regulation: That only matters if you're selling. If you're researching or making it for personal use, the FCC doesn't (or shouldn't) matter.