Simon Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The objective, IMO, would NOT be to produce a finished, fully > engineered end-product which users could build for themselves. It > would be to produce a reference design with open firmware, open > protocol and open drivers. > > Given such a design, companies (possibly very small ones at first) > could produce and market finished hardware. This might be very > similar to the reference design or it might not be, but it would be > compatible with it. They would still be able to differentiate their > products by audio quality, number and types of inputs, packaging and > price etc.
That is exactly what I'm talking about;) Also, look at other libre hardware the leon cpu the manticore gpu Sites of interest: www.opencores.org -- Esben Stien is [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.esben-stien.name irc://irc.esben-stien.name/%23contact [sip|iax]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]