by jar » Sun Jul 30, 2017 2:47 am
@KNERDY,
I believe it was in reply to your criticism about the comment: "we need to make sure that every programmer has access to cheap and open parallel hardware and development tools". His reply was that the inexpensive Parallella board ($99-$149), which is an open design and includes a dual-core ARM processor, 16-core Epiphany processor, Xilinx FPGA, an open GNU toolchain, and many open source software libraries and projects -- should satisfy that stated goals.
There shouldn't be any issues with the stated goals and the project didn't violate thhem. You may argue about whether or not the goals were successfully achieved. Parallel computing is hard and it's not going away.