Sandip Bhattacharya
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:03:35 -0700
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:21:45AM +0530, Vardhan Varma merrily said: > A couple of days i visited simputer web site, > and proceeded to download hardware spec of simputer, > and these fellows would not give out spec to anyone > using a 'free-email-service', only company account. > But it's me and not my company which is intereseted > in these document. > > Do these guy know about 'inididuals' ? Ha ha ha. A typical shallow academic look at Open Source is what this is all about. Comes from having people working in a religious field like Open Source, and not appreciating the philosophy at the same time. This policy is probably aimed at what they perceive as "serious" developers for Simputer, i.e. their expectations are more towards official development on Simputer related h/w and apps. When will they learn that unlike software, it is very difficult to hold IP in hardware as opensource, and the /only/ protection that they have against more market-savvy would-be usurpers of Simputer, is that they encourage more part-time, individuals like you,me and others to develop on it ... - Sandip "Don't sell me the philosophy, sell me the passion!" -- ------------------------------------- Sandip Bhattacharya sandipb @ bigfoot.com http://www.sandipb.net -------------------------------------