Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Brendan wrote: > >> Open Source is awesome, but most hardware companies are >> never, ever going to open their hardware. > > There's a rather large difference between telling people how to talk to > the hardware they buy (some interpretations of German law suggest that one > *has* to do that; for instance, you're legally required here to provide > schematics so that people can, theoretically these days, repair their VCRs > if they break), and giving away the design files for the chips so that > others can go to their own fab and recreate one (which is what "open > hardware" ultimately means). > Yes, reminds one of the difference between publishing API specs and publishing the whole source code.
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