TI can take their binary blobs
and shovel them somewhere else.

sheesh,
I feel this way too, sometimes,
after explaining something in as clear a way
as is linguistically possible, like this:

Having been there and done that for some of my own inhouse
projects, what joerg says is blindingly simple:

what you want is not available,
to you, to your buddies, not even today,
probably for reasons that have
nothing to do with anything you can possibly do about that fact.
I have been places in HongKong and Singapore where
the vendors will even go so far as to deny the existence
of parts, etc sitting on a display shelf right behind their head,
where the price per quantity is boldly marked.
(For an amusing read go look at the FLASH memory hacking)
They do not want to waste their time on you selling stuff
they will need to have in stock when the deep-pockets
customers come through the door.


These are the guys who support walled gardens:

Not for any personal reasons, but:

They don't like you very much,
simply because you have very little money or market share.
They will not talk to you, they will not deal with you,
they do not even want to acknowledge your existence,
for extremely sound economic and financial reasons.
Even holding a simple one-way conversation with you is an
unforgivable waste of their time.


the newest hottest stuff, where from would you, the user, get software that supports your modern platform?

I do not know how many linux distros you have ever
tried to install, but bear in mind the magic that is something
like sabayon or linux mint is an incredible achievement
in a field overshadowed by the walled gardens of Microsoft etc.

Those late night coffee days of yore------------
when we had to wait a year for the linux code
to catch up with the latest and greatest brand-spanking-new
modem drivers/whatchamallit code/ and other
whizbang new-fangled-gizmo-built-just-for-windows
---------------are NOT OVER YET.

We in the linux universe are still the tail being wagged
by some very big dogs who regard us as fleas, <scratch>.
Just because you can buy it does not mean you can operate it
without seriously crippling software re-coding calendar time.

</rant>
Use the best you can get at the right stage of software support,
is the best that can be done..
Anything else means your grip on reality has more than just a few parity errors,
and you need to go fsck yourself before you hurt someone...