Simon Jenkins <sjenkins@email-addr-hidden> writes:
> The objective, IMO, would NOT be to produce a finished, fully
> engineered end-product which users could build for themselves. It
> would be to produce a reference design with open firmware, open
> protocol and open drivers.
>
> Given such a design, companies (possibly very small ones at first)
> could produce and market finished hardware. This might be very
> similar to the reference design or it might not be, but it would be
> compatible with it. They would still be able to differentiate their
> products by audio quality, number and types of inputs, packaging and
> price etc.
That is exactly what I'm talking about;)
Also, look at other libre hardware
the leon cpu
the manticore gpu
Sites of interest: www.opencores.org
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