From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 15 19:58:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0530337B404 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:58:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEDF43F85 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:58:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18uPIB-000PsK-00; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:58:35 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2G3wZPe074209; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:58:35 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2G3wYh0074208; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:58:34 GMT Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:58:34 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: David Kelly 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> References: <20030315225844.GA72313@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200303152025.23590.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303152025.23590.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18uPIB-000PsK-00*SNvIMkv.rWM* Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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