Quite. I can't think of any reason other than retrocomputing that someone would want an OpenSPARC.
I think people forget that the economies are different with hardware vs software; because you cannot eradicate the per-unit cost of hardware, paying a small part of that in license fees is not a big deal, especially since it comes with integration support that saves you a lot of non-recurring R&D expense. Whereas in software, being free makes it zero-friction and this has a huge impact on adoption.
I think people forget that the economies are different with hardware vs software; because you cannot eradicate the per-unit cost of hardware, paying a small part of that in license fees is not a big deal, especially since it comes with integration support that saves you a lot of non-recurring R&D expense. Whereas in software, being free makes it zero-friction and this has a huge impact on adoption.