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One issue about free hardware
by Unknown on May 15, 2004 |
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On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 08:52:40AM +1200, Erez Birenzwig wrote:
http://www.em.avnet.com/evk/home/0,1719,RID%253D0%2526CID%253D7816%2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253D4746%2526DID%253DDF2%2526SRT%253D1%2526LID%253D4746%2526PVW%253D%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVK,00.html
> The second part to this is that you have to buy a development board,
which
> usually
> cost some money, which is exactly the money most people don't want to spend.
> And if you want to actually use it for something, you'll have to buy
another
> one,
> and so on. You can't just keep the result on the hard drive and use it when
> you feel like it.
> Devel boards are getting cheaper, into the range affordable to university students and hobbyists. Please excuse the url wrapping: $499 USD for a board with 1.5M gates, PCI connector, VGA hardware, etc. US$499, might seem cheap if you're a hardware engineer working in the silicon valay, but for the avarage person it is still a lot of money. You can buy a whole new computer for this price, and the software comes for free.... I think that the price tag makes the hardware development comunity smaller, and also indifferent to the price tag of the accompaning software. It's an expensive business, and there's a lot of money and profit in it. Software on the other hand is a lot cheaper, and unless you're Microsoft, there's not a lot of profit in it. Erez. |
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