[igodard]

All sound points.

Most of what you'd like to see are things we'd like to see too. At the beginning we decided to bootstrap rather than follow the usual funding model, at least to the point at which we could demonstrate what we had to people who would understand it in detail. We choose bootstrap in large part because most of us were old enough to have had actual experience with other business models. Yes, it has taken far longer to get this far than we wanted, but we have gotten this far.

About evaluation: it has been our experience that the more senior/skilled a hardware (and software) guy is the more they fall in love with the Mill. You don't hear much of that - we want the tech to be judged on its merits, not on some luminariy's say-so. And of course those senior guys tend to work for potential competitors and don't want to say much publicly.

But you are right: the proof will be running code, and we're starting to do that. We'll be doing more talks like the switches talk, with actual code comparisons. Eventually we will put our tool chain and sim on the cloud for you to play with. Patience, waiting is.