Yikes....25K? That's some mighty expensive beer. ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Uziel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Slim Devices Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [slim] Out of curiosity
> * Mike Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050310 13:10]: > > And you are right that SLIM **could** choose to license and make money > > from it. But there may also be things that fall more under the "trade > > secrets/methods" category that can be problematic to license. You can > > attempt to protect them through NDA, but once they are known by others > > ideas and methods can be difficult to control. And your only real > > weapon is litigation, which is a crap shoot and gets expensive > > quickly, especially in the intelectual property arena. Take a look at > > Groklaw and read up on SCO vs The World if you haven't already. A > > protracted trade secrets suit could bankrupt a company like SLIM > > before they even got to the first day in court. > > Oh, I'm well-aware of SCO and a whole bunch of other open source related > cases over the years. :) Sure, this is a conceivable outcome. To be > honest, while I'd prefer to be able to play with the firmware for the > SB2 and add stuff like native ogg support, the fact that it requires a > totally expensive toolchain suite ($25k was it?) kinda shoots it in the > head. I'm happy enough with the source for the server anyways. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
