Re: [oc] Jim Turley's article at Embedded.com

[Lior Shtram <liors@flextronics.co.il>]

Hi All,

Billditt@aol.com wrote:

> Hello,
>         Why doesnt someone write a letter to editor. I would advise 
> not being
> too critical. The author deserves this, but this is a great 
> opportunity to get
> some free publicity. So I would tone it down and point out various web 
> sites
> the author "missed".
>     Bill Dittenhofer
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Well sounds like a good idea.
I am working for Flextronics Semiconductor and as we will soon state in 
opencores.org - Flextronics is sponsoring some of the activity going on 
in OpenCores development and we are in it for the business and the money 
- not from altruistic reasons (though we do like the idea of open source 
very much). I am 100% sure that open hardware has a very good business 
case to be based on, maybe even more real than open source software. The 
difference is - when you develop open source software, you have 
something everyone wants but you realy have nothing to sell. When you 
develop open source hardware, you have something that everyone wants - 
and you have something to sell still - the actual hardware device. This 
means that many companies could safely use open source hardware and 
after complying with GPL and returning the source to the public domain - 
they will still make most or maybe even more money they could have made 
before using open hardware. We will be proving this business model in 
the next few months as we are starting to market opencores IP.
In any case I think all of us around oc have a lot to say in response to 
this article, and like Bill said this might be a good tool to get us 
published. I would suggest to collect ideas together about the reality, 
status, business model, logic behind opencores - so please send me your 
comments. I will take the job of writing an article to embedded.com - 
and I will also try to publish it in EEtimes and other magazines. I 
think that in the end we will have to thank Jim for providing us this 
door to communicate this.

regards,
Lior


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