On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:48:14 -0400
"Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of the first things that OHF should do is consider the issue of
> Traversal's release of the "withheld" RTL. That is, regarding the
> time delay and such. Write up a proposal for how you think it should
> be handled. Be sure to cover every way in which early release of the
> IP could hurt our cause. Remember that if Traversal can't do
> business, then Traversal goes out of business, and you're left without
> your principal hardware engineers (who will have lost their shirts and
> will have to struggle to recover their lives), and it will look very
> bad for the general viability of open hardware. If the proposal is
> sound, then Traversal can release the RTL into the hands of the OHF
> who will then release it under agreed-upon parameters.
IMHO Traversal's first priority should be to get the chip out
of the fab. If it cares too much about how and when to release
the RTL, then it will waste some of its energy on two different
battlegrounds.
OHF on the other hand could handle the whole community issue.
When what information is distributed, how releases are handled
and such. Note that these need not to be the people from Traversal,
but they need to be in close contact with them.
Also OHF could do something to protect Traversals IP: give out
certificates to open hardware friendly companies. This would be
a good marker for people who would like to buy OH devices.
This way rip off companies would have a much harder life.
Apropos certificate, a "OGA vX.Y compatible" certificate
for sold devices would be also a good thing. Then anyone
could modify, build and sell derivatives, but the customer
would still have some sort of guarantee that the device
would work as he expects it. (yes, rejecting this
certificate to rip off companies, would also gain us
some security)
Attila Kinali
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