Hi, My thoughts below:
----- On Dec 13, 2007 11:15 PM, Smruti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Sounds interesting. But when you get down to ground reality it is still not | possible to make hardware gpl complaint. \-- Why not? ----- | Hardware is tangible and it costs. We can make the architecture open source | but the hardware itself can't be made for free. \-- Make the hardware design open, produce it, and sell it with a price ... (1) You can also pay for Free Software. ----- | You can make the software that runs a calculator free but you cannot make a | CRT monitor that can be give for free. \-- Same as (1). ----- | And hardware cannot be shared and | kept concurrently simply because you can't make copies of it for free. \-- Design of hardware and selling are two different things? You can design open hardware, produce it, and sell it at a price to customers, and still provide them GPL code of the hardware. Useful references: http://www.opencores.org/ http://opencollector.org/ http://www.opensparc.net/ http://www.srisc.com/ SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
