pippin wrote: > Oh. And if you really want to sell it as an audio device you can add a > healthy margin - something like 200-300% would be common - for > distributors and the fact that you are in to open a can of worms > regarding licensing. If you sell this thing as an audio device, you are > violating patents you have to license and while the actual cost around > that may be reasonable (you need to allow for a decent minimum volume, > though, don't think about selling only a few hundred devices), the > process alone means you probably need somebody to work that full time > plus a lawyer. Count that into your pice and you get a very different > figure. > > It's a common mistake made by smaller Asian electronics makers who think > that just because they put a free free software with open source > licenses on their devices and fulfill the license requirements of the > software, they would be fine. Trade shows are full of booths with empty > shelves because all the devices got seized due to this. > Just for my understanding, is the licensing issues any different than for the current Vortexbox Appliance products which also includes a software player last time I checked ? At least my Vortexbox installation on a laptop have a software player built-in.
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