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On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:41 +0000, carmen wrote:

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> > how expensive is a firewire port ?

> > firewire stuff is THE niche to fill.

> > most newer firewire devices are not supported if if i understand

> > correctly.

>

> yeah this would be where my interest is as well. somehow i dont believe the 2 million figure (maybe designing a video card from scratch, and printing it up) . i mean can't you just go to whatever factory in Shenzen is churning out crap for Behringer and have them slap a GNU label on it and ship it with schematics and open source drivers?

> 

I think it's probably the old story, of "it will cost you $2 million to

fab your first board, after that it's 25 cents each" ;-)
Lee