Those of you not involved in product design and delivery won't understand how complex a world it is these days. At almost every turn there is some form of consideration that you need legal and licensing agreement with,
Just because you can build something from already available components, hardware or software doesn't mean that once built, you can then sell the end result. Just because, for example, you can buy a cheap DAC from a supplier in China, doesn't mean they have the license and the rights to sell it to you to include in another product. In the open source software arena, just because you can get Linux, Apache, Angular JS and a dozen other components which you can build into an application stack, doesn't then mean you can just call it open source and resell it with no consequences. Getting a product to market now, even as a "community" project has all sorts of risks, costs and due diligence. Thats why you see so many go to crowd funding. One of my current favorites due to ship anytime is the Dash Wireless headphones(*1), they raised over $3-million. I hope they've taken all the required steps, otherwise all their time, effort, design and IP could come to nothing when a company comes calling to tell you that the software, hardware or algorithm in your product violates their distribution, or worse patent. So, I have no idea what happened in this instance, but can tell folks that have never produced a product for sale, community, commodity or otherwise, there is much more to it than you'd imagine, and then there are people, their egos and feelings.... *1 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hellobragi/the-dash-wireless-smart-in-ear-headphones --------------------------- http://about.me/markcathcart Running a ReadyNAS NVX LMS Server, Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1423154751; Squeezebox Touch, Boom, Radio devices. Also using Squeezeplay on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cathcam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43414 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103054 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
