On Apr 6, 2005 5:13 PM, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > You're going to go in circles. The board will cost precisely as much > > as it needs to, no more, no less. What that is will be determined by > > what parts we determine we NEED. Do not assume that we're so wasteful > > as engineers that there are things about it that we can "tighten up". > > One cannot run a business that way. > > > > The only thing we have control over is the profit margin, and we have > > to be fair to ourselves as well as everyone else. > > I would be happy if the price of the developer version could be kept below > US$500-600 (basically what a consumer high end graphics card costs), I > really want this though, and the more flexible and powerful it is > (although US$10.000 is way over the top for me :-( )... But I guess it's > hard to make everyone happy. My reasoning is this though, that the > developer version shouldn't be "price sensitive" in the sense that you > need to cripple it, making it less attractive/useful; besides there are > quite a few FOSS projects (esp. driver development) which receives > hardware donations (ivtv, unichrome etc.). If there's an interesting > project and I think there's a serious developer needing a developer board > I would consider donating one (if I can afford two :-) )...
Yes, donations will be very much appreciated for development purposes. A plan still has to be formulated for how we're going to price the prototype prototypes versus the production prototypes. The first run will be more expensive to make, because it'll be in the 10s of units. Once we can justify it, we'll make 100 or so and start selling the product. Since the initial run will have a special purpose, we have an incentive to get it out and into people's hands, as it pertains to the OGP as a whole, rather than just the board as a product. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
