> It seems to me that we should take what has already been done and build on
> it rather than re-inventing the wheel. Unless I am missing some major
> difference?

The major difference is the license. The Engine can be built and used for
free, but is more restricted in that any commercial distribution is limited to
the design's proprietor. I'm not saying that's bad, just that it's different from a
GPL style license, which would allow commercial use and distribution by
anyone, but it would be non-exclusive and the right to distribute non-
commercially would be protected, and derivitave works could only be
distributed under the same license.

I don't know if a GPL style license is what the original poster had in mind,
but I think a truly open hardware project (with accompanying open-source
software, of course) would be great. And a device programmer is a natural.
I'd be willing to contribute to such a thing.


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                                        William Kitchen
                                        bill@iglobal.net

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