Originally posted by deanjo
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small changed of subject... what about BIOS? thats old tech. Hardly anything of value
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Originally posted by Gizmot View Postwell, your exemple assume heavy R&D using actual production tooling. Could be wrong, but I was assuming that hardware was split in R&D between elementary science, new product engineering and manufacturing technology.
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Originally posted by Nille View PostThey don?t need to reverse engineer the driver because AMD give the specs to the Devs and if something undocumented you can ask the AMD ppl.
Some of the "radeon" driver devs are employed by AMD an some by Redhad an AMD partner.
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Originally posted by Nille View PostThey don?t need to reverse engineer the driver because AMD give the specs to the Devs and if something undocumented you can ask the AMD ppl.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostWell lets put it this way, I design boats as well as my computing life, manufacturing wise that is simple as it takes typically less then 4 hours to assemble a boat but to gain that extra 5 mph out of the hull it took 18 months of analysis, design and simulations to find that "sweet spot spec" that allowed that performance difference. Assembly wise it made no difference. I guess it all depends on the product being designed. Ask any farmer as well about what they would do about their combine if they had a chance to talk to the engineer.
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Originally posted by Gizmot View PostAt the same time, you know that there is a bunch of very talented FOSS guys bashing their head on how to reverse engineer some hardware.
Originally posted by Gizmot View PostSo then, in God's name, dont they just open their close source drivers, pay some developpers (and get a crap load of free work from FOSS developpers) and developp a generic multiplatform driver that would be easy to port on easy platform?
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Originally posted by Gizmot View PostI do agree,
except that I was refering to the R&D of manufacturing.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostMaybe they would, and maybe they would not, but the last thing investors want is uncertainty.
Because on one side, you have uncertainty, and on the other you have the certitude to obtain the cooperation and loyalty of all the FOSS community (with also a much lower cost for drivers developpement...)
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