The first thing is... Gabe will need to hear about the "rockstars" who will roll up their sleeves and drive the project forward. He is a businessman, and if a genuine opportunity presents itself I would think he could be convinced to invest.
I have been watching Nvidia // ATI // Intel and trying to wrap my head around where they are headed. -- Intel: Knights Corner started out as an x86 core video card / HPC Compute accelerator. It later morphed into more of a HPC accelerator, and if what intel claims is true then the HPC crowd are going to crow loudly and Nvidia / ATI are going to be crying about CUDA / OpenCL and HPC being made obsolete. "If you program for x86, you can program for our Knights corner HPC Compute!" ... that is convincing. I mention that because both ATI and Nvidia depend on these sales to help round out profits. Another thing to consider is Bitcoin and Folding @ Home == http://www.hardocp.com/news/2012/12/07/fold_for_horde_win_cash_prizes The easier we make it for "science to happen" by accelerating the compute models the better off we are. For a while when the Sony Playstation 3 was still Linux friendly the United States Airforce used it to make a fairly nice cluster. Cell anyone? Just ideas, and thoughts. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Dieter BSD <[email protected]> wrote: > Gregory writes: > > Maybe someone should write a letter to Steam and say: > > > > Dear Steam, > > > > Given how Microsoft is trying to screw everyone this Xmas with > > Windows 8, and seeing you had such bad luck with the Video blobs from > > vendors, but good luck with the open source stuff...really only one > > thing is missing. > > > > An open source card, which, you have a vested interested in helping fund > > or develop with the community. > > > > If you please put on your Steam page a percentage of how much of the > > profits for the Linux games goes to a Chip Foundry fund so you and the > > community can get Graphics hardware with 3D capabilities that are > > decent, we would wuv you. > > Not a bad idea. All we need is someone with ueber diplomatic skills. > Which isn't me, unfortunately. Anyone have ueber diplomatic skills? > Anyone happen to be friends with people from Steam? > > Here's my feeble attempt: > > Dear Steam, > > We at the Open Graphics Project have read about the trouble Steam > has been having with binary blobs, and your relative success with FLOSS. > We are working on developing a graphics card that is completely documented, > so that FLOSS OSes can have proper device drivers that work correctly. > > As you are doubtlessly aware, the lack of a properly documented > graphics card is a major sore point in the FLOSS community. Sponsorship > of a "Steam Powered" graphics card would generate an enormous amount of > goodwill. We look forward to discussing the possibility of working together > with you at your convenience. > > ------ > > Ok, perhaps some diplomatic wizard can fix that up. > > What do we need to do to prepare, in case they are actually interested? > Will they want a demo of the OGD1? A detailed business plan? > Something else? > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
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