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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: <patents@aful.org>, Philippe Coulonges <cphil@cphil.net>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] computer.org article
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:33:43 +0200 (CEST)
> >No. With only a 1000$ machine, ten fingers and my brain I can design
> >software,
> >realize a prototype, test it, fine tune it, distribute it. That's not true
> >with hardware.
>
> With only a 1000$ machine, ten fingers and my brain I can design hardware
> (using open source CAE tools), test it, fine tune it, and distribute the
> VHDL (or similar code) for others to load into their FPGAs coprocessor
> boards. Indeed, the selling of hardware designs is a hundred million
> dollar a year business (such as processor cores and network chips). Not
> once do the hardware designers ever get physical. They are too busy trying
> to make money and run a business.
This is still software development, and any patents you might get on it
will be software patents.
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