Le mercredi 25 juillet 2007 à 20:40 -0700, Timothy Normand Miller a écrit : > I thought y'all might like a report on how the speech went. Things > went well. Absolutely no problems with the hardware, connecting it to > the projector or anything. Did people be convinced that this was really the ogd card at work? > > About 25 to 30 people attended. > > My speech proper probably only lasted about 15 minutes, shorter than > the usual 20 I got when practicing. But I got so many questions at > the end that we ended up filling the entire 45-minute time slot. > > I don't remember all of the questions, but they included things like: > > - cost of OGD1 > - timeline for OGC1 > - designing hardware vs. reverse engineering existing cards > - tool chain issues (i.e. being required to use Xilinx commercial tools) > - legal issues wrt patents and competitors pouncing on us > - our licensing terms As someone had a camera during the speech, does OSCON make actually a audio record of such event? Questions are interesting, those you retain are related to the ogp's concerns, that's not a surprise. But among the skipped questions, there're maybe some valuable stuff > > I had forgotten to bring a camera, but someone was there with a rather > expensive-looking one and he has promised to email me the photos he > took. > > The audience seemed enthusiastic and very interested. > > It has been suggested that we get into contact with one of the > organizations like the Software Freedom Law Center and work around a > plan in advance to deal with the possibility of getting sued. So, the buisness is starting. >
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