My guess would be this is for I/O.

These customers have lots of I/O that, if you can do high performance optimized operations on a general CPU how useful would that be ?

Think of something like liberouter or NetFFPGA embedded on the CPU die.

Or maybe the FPGA is used to implement calculations like crypto and hashes like CRC32C. Instead of building them into the silicon, why not make it possible to do research by loading new versions of it.

Maybe you just need to look around on the Internet what other companies are doing with these, it might also give you hints:
http://www.embedded.com/electr...

1. Technically they didn't implement closed DRM, they let others build a closed part and allow it to be run from Firefox

2. You mean Android ? the Google services are getting more closed by the day and the open source components are lagging. Samsung is creating their own replacements. This seems like a good idea to you ?

Ofcourse, but what is the alternative ?

Multiple non-profits ?

The problem is, the US already has, many, many firearms in the general population so it is hard to change the policy. Because it might have the opposite affect.

But in many countries around the world, there are very few firearm incidents. Because people don't have them.

The problem with firearms is they are really effective and thus very deadly. Which means every time there is a problem there are a lot more deaths when firearms are involved.

Now: if you look at the trends in these other coutries where the general population has no firearms, the number of criminals with firearms _might be_ on the rise. Not much though. These firearms usually originate from countries at war. The obvious solution is to solve that problem. :-)

It's an open source project backed by a non-profit that as it's only goal is: keeping the Internet open and accessible by anyone by improving, promoting the open web.

Mozilla isn't perfect, but it might be the best we've got right now ?

"Why do ordinary users buy newer, more expensive Android phones?"

The old one is broken.

But they are not smartphones, they are feature phones.

Do you think Dell produces it's products in the US ?

Is Dell a US company ?

There is your answer.

But in Brazil they do get produced locally, because import taxes are really high.

Webapps don't need a server.

All you need is for it to not depend on a server (by using the HTML5 Offline cache) and add a manifest file:
  http://davidwalsh.name/firefox...

I have a feeling when a large number of projects on github (or the new dockerhub) includes a Dockerfile and maybe a file for orchestration (like OpenStack Heat template) that will make it even easier to deploy any project things will really start to take off even more than they are now for open source and free software.

"Amazon *IS* the market, the market should set prices."

That is a great idea, until Amazon really is the only supplier.

Then they will really set their prices (read: high)

One way is to use a Linux container.

Also look up: Docker

It isn't just Linux containers, but is is also a deployment method.

RedHat added SELinux support.

Pretty certain they'll make it nice and secure.

Solution:

Move as much as you can to webbased solutions, probably running on Intranet servers.

That can be managed on the server.

Every platform has a browser and they are more and more capable each release.