<html><head></head><body>Quick give this man $150K for a libre CPU<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 May 2017 18:43:07 GMT+03:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:27 PM, <ronwirring@safe-mail.net> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Best knowledge is, that new intel and amd processors cannot be reverse engineered.<br /> What in regard of the latest mali gpus?<br /> If you have the money, they can be reverse engineered?<br /></blockquote><br /> yes. about $150k would do it. but the question is, really: what<br />would happen if you did? and, what else could you do with the same<br />money?<br /><br /> well, with the same money it would be possible to make our own libre<br />processor, with enough extensions to be able to do 3D graphics<br />*without* paying anyone a cent. any company tries to claim patent<br />royalties, all that happens is a search is made on their "claims", for<br />anything similar that has prior art.<br /><br /> if it's another company, guess what? we notify that other company<br />and watch the fireworks...<br /><br />l.<br /><br /><hr /><br />arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk<br /><a href="http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook">http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook</a><br />Send large attachments to arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk</pre></blockquote></div><br>
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