On Wednesday 06 April 2005 18:40, Timothy Miller wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2005 5:13 PM, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 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.
Just to clarify, I do not mind a paying a few hundred for the "prototype
prototype". I will twist arms at Red Hat to pay for it anyway, or even
buy it myself. Or accept a hardware donation through some
to-be-established donation scheme.
I estimate that the immediate demand for "prototype prototypes" at Red
Hat will be 3 or 4. That would break down as:
- One for me
- One for one of the DRI guys, to do a reality check on the DRI
interface
- One for one of the freedesktop.org developers, to do a reality
check on supporting the new render model
- One up for grabs
Note that I am not speaking officially for Red Hat, it is an informal
estimate.
> 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.
That sounds eminently sensible. As soon as we get the first
prototype-prototypes, I think we need to re-run the poll and see how
many pre-orders we can get for the larger run of "production
prototypes".
My dream is to see thousands of relatively inexpensive "prototypes" in
the hands of people who can help, as you know.
Regards,
Daniel
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