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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:55:03PM -0700, Erez Birenzwig wrote:

> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:55:03PM -0700, Erez Birenzwig wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> >   When was the last time you read all of GCC code ? Or Python ?
> > Or Perl ? Or Apache ? I can keep going....
> >
>
> Well, RMS wrote gcc, so I would hope that he read it too!  :)

About GCC, I guess I owe an appology to Richard, so I appologize for
not knowing that you wrote GCC, which I use about once a week.

I guess it's also a good oportunity to thank you :)

>
> >   To conclude, I think that open source EDA tools is nice, but in
reality most
> > of the participant in this list, are either working for EDA companey,
> > electronics engineers or students, for good EDA tools that can compete
with
> > commercial ones, you need a lot of know-how, and a good background. It's
> > a lot harder to design and write then a new window manager or a new
shell for
> > windows. The problems are at a different scale, and most of the code is
> > propriatry and not accessible. This makes the task very hard and you
need very
> > dedicated people to do that, espacially because the community is not as
large.
> >
>
> I was still in diapers when the GNU project started but I'm assuming
that's the
> same argument that RMS ran into, ie 'Why develop a free Unix, it's going
to be
> hard and there are already commercial ones out there?'.
>
> I wonder what a good term would be for the things that are currently
described
> as 'IP' in the hardware field.  Ie a common phrase is something like 'the
memory
> controller is someone else's IP'.  Maybe proprietary core vs free core?
>
> -- 
> Alex Harford
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