Yeah. This is one of the concerns I brought up. If someone designs a device that's a "blank", specifically with the intention of having end users load our design, that would suck for us. It's a loophole.
But then again, maybe we don't care. That has yet to be determined. Here's one way to think about it: The IP (RTL) has value to the business. One kind of value is monetary--earning potential. The other kind is intangible in the form of brand loyalty, how much positive attention it gets us, etc. To some people, releasing the RTL will cause the intangible value to go up. In order to maximize the value of the IP to the business, we have to come up with some way to compare those two kinds of value, and when the latter exceeds the former, it's time to release. On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:23:20 +0200, Jan Knutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2005 21:12, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > > Under the GPL another company could take the RTL and base a product > > > on it, and be in the clear as long as they also release the RTL of their > > > product, I believe. > > > > Yes, and this is one of the concerns I have. I guess we can live with > > it if the other company does release their RTL. It's only if they > > DON'T want to release the RTL do they have to come to us and buy a > > license. > > How do you feel about a scenario, where a competing company would make > a nearly identical product, call it "clone", but without anything loaded on > it, > so that the user could then download the image from techsource and load it > into the card and get themselves an OGRE (yeah I know it's taken :-( ) clone? > > Even the boundaries between comercial and non-comercial use of the code > are blurry :) > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
