Not sure why anyone would prohibit you taking an idea commercial
unless they wanted to get the idea and the rights so they could do
that themselves.  However, since you are not signing away the rights
to anyone else, perhaps you could just change one output-resistor
value and then it's not the same circuit anymore. :-)

What may have come out of this though, is that I've been researching
PCB mfgrs today, and just came across this PCB guy's address as
a decent source. At the high-level, seems like the best deal (for my
1- and 2-piece quantities), so at least he got some free advertising
out of it.  :-)

However, I like the idea of sharing projects.  As soon as I come up
with a fun project, I'll post/distribute, with or without a free PCB.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jinx" <joecolquitt@CLEAR.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: PICList free PCB contest!


> James, it's a bloody good idea as a team-building exercise
> but I think it's a self-defeating proposal unfortunately
>
> If the project is good enough to win, then it possibly has
> commercial value. Or had.
>
> Between commercial and purely one-offs, I would have
> thought there's a very narrow strip containing little of
> popular appeal. Perhaps a manufacturer would care to
> do a contra deal, but you'll get objections to commercial
> servitude or the list members being used as "paid performers"
>
> Look at magazine "Idea Of The Month" competitions for
> example. Many winning entries are not big enough to justify
> a PCB being made, and therein lies the problem
>
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