> When I speak euphamistically or indirectly about someone... > you still know whom I'm talking about.
Some of us might know who you're talking about. Others of us don't even know who Lorne is. > The fact is, any card that they might release full specs for would be > just as old-tech as OGA, if not worse. They're not going to give up > their money-makers at the high end, so they'll start selling $24 > Radeon 7000 cards again. Sigh. Even the founding father of an open hardware group thinks of releasing specs as giving up a money-maker. We need a whole new economic system. Capitalism is killing people and the planet. Communism didn't work out so well either. We need a way to eliminate the motivation for trade secrets. Patents and copyrights are supposed to do this, but they aren't getting the job done, despite the widespread abuse of them. Competition can be a good motivation, but it has a dark side. Trade secrets in electronics are bad, very bad. but it gets worse. PBS is showing a series called "Remaking American Medicine...Healthcare for the 21st Century". In the 2nd episode, "First Do No Harm", they talked about how hospitals compete against each other. If hospital A finds a way to reduce infections (they were talking about the "superbugs" that are resistant to antibiotics) they don't want to share that information with other hospitals because they are competing. And there was the problem of "We get paid to fight infections." This is obscene beyond words. We need better motivation for people and companies to share information. Ideas? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
