On 5/18/05, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2005 14:35, Patrick McNamara wrote: > > For people who may be scskepticalbout the possibility of the > > scscenariosimothy, myself, and other feel will happen, go look at all > > the articles floating around about grgrayarket, untested, and > > remarked RAM chips marking their way into the channel. If Micron > > can't stop companies from passing cheap knock-offs of their stuff, > > what makes anyone think we can? > > Red herring. If the open graphics card project ever got remotely as big > as a RAM manufacturer it will have succeeded beyond anybody's wildest > dreams. > > A properly staged GPL release program, where developers making real > contributions have _free_ access to the source and can freely > distribute it among themselves prior to the GPL release will hold off > the knock-off threat.
This is fine. I actually do not want to charge the developers anything, but there has to be some sort of filter in place. Also, it should be easy enough for the NDA to stipulate that sharing is allowed with someone who is under the same NDA. I'm still not convinced you guys are going to get much out of it, but whatever. > > The real threat is that this project will become permanently mired > unproductive debate, leaving a total of two workers doing whatever > small amount of work actually gets done. Look at the Freenet project > to see an example of that. The Freenet project started much like this > one, with some real talent involved, but all the talent left > eventually. And to avoid the debate, some people are going to have to put up with terms they don't like. And the truth is, it's already that way on both sides. I believe that means we've found the best solution. :) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
