[acuozzo]

> The real question is where the hell is the open source hardware?

Agreed. I get so angry every time I think about the amount of Verilog and VHDL that will never, ever get released even after the companies responsible for it die and even after many years have elapsed.

Where is the 3Dfx VSA-100 source, for instance? What technical advantage could it give NVIDIA now? They purchased 3Dfx twenty years ago!

[astrange]

They don't necessarily own the rights to all the source. You can't release it if you licensed part of it from some other company and that company is now dead.