Re: [oc] Inquiry

[Rudolf Usselmann <rudi@asics.ws>]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 20:29, Richard Herveille wrote:
> 
> That's correct. I just had a verbal fight for Design&ReUse about OpenCores 
> with somebody from SONICS Inc. SONICS made the following public statement:
> 
> "
> I can not believe that anyone in our (=SoC) industry will seriously use any of 
> the open-cores. The effort you might have with the integration of these cores 
> might be higher than designing new ones from scratch - at least you will not 
> see any cost saving compared to licensing 'real' cores.
> "

One more thing:

If that was a public statement, we should get an attorney
and sue them for slender. We should talk to EFF since we
are a not-for-profit organization ...

Regards,
rudi               
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