Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:58:34 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When does it make sense for a company to open-source its code? Message-ID: <20030316035834.GA74104@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200303152025.23590.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> References: <20030315225844.GA72313@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200303152025.23590.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:25:23PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: : On Saturday 15 March 2003 04:58 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : > : > The company I work at designs scientific instruments controlled from : > a host PC. That PC has to run Windows right now. However, I am : > being asked to look into porting at least some of the software, : > possibly just the hardware control components, to Linux/Unix. : [...] : > What might be some guidelines to follow to decide what should be made : > open source (BSD license) and what should be binary-only? Could we : > practically do both? If binary-only is becoming widely unacceptable, : > what else could be done to protect our intellectual property? 8<---------------- : If I'm not mistaken, the I/O hardware for the data collection industry : has pretty much unified and standardized on clones of National : Intruments products? And somehow/someway yours differ? 8<--------------------- Actually, what I am calling a 'driver' is more of a controller, which is just a translator of commands to send through the actual interface, be it serial, GPIB (NI), IP, and so on. Jonathon -- For Sale: French Army rifle. Never fired, dropped once. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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