Re: [oc] Inquiry

[Rudolf Usselmann <rudi@asics.ws>]

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 16:15, John Kent wrote:
> Hi everyone ...
> 
> Seems like a popular discussion, so I'll wade in with my 2 cents worth.
...
> My feeling is that you get what you pay for. If you are serious about a
> comercial design, you should not use Open Cores code. I treat Open Cores
> as a learning experience to see worked example of how to write VHDL and
> verilog, and for that I've found it very useful.

Auch ! Here we go again, just because something is free it is
considered crap, only useful for learning. Funny, you want to
*learn* from crap that others produced ? I really don't understand
how people can generalize in such a broad way. Sure there are
some bad IPs our there, just as there are plenty of commercial
IP out there that are crap.

Just because Linux is free, it is not considered crap. Are you
using any NVIDIA Graphics Cards ? They use Linux for their computer
farm for chip design and simulations. So I guess they are making
crap as well ?!

The truth is that there are many commercial customers out there
that use IP cores from OpenCores. Unfortunately, because of the
wrong impression (like yours) people get when they hear OpenCores,
nobody wants to admit it. My complements to Voxi, who has publicly
written up a success story how they used a hand full of free IP
cores from OpenCores. You probably didn't read that yet, did you ?

I write commercial IPs for a living, and just because I give some
of them away for free, it does not mean they are useless or crap.

Thank you.

> I tried adapting a 68K multitasking kernel from Doctor Dobbs Journal
> many years ago for a comercial application. I ended up rewritting it because
> it did not work. Free software, or free IP is not free if you have to 
> maintain
> it, and given that the GPL stipulates that modifications be accessible 
> to every one,
> you are giving you work and money away in doing so.
> 
> John Kent.

 
rudi               
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