jamesnewton@PICLIST.COM wrote:
> Who is "prohibiting you taking an idea commercial"?

The contest details page states "To be non-commercial projects."
Then later in the Fine-Print section it states "Entering the contest
means releasing all hope of making money off your design. No
copyright. copyleft only.  ..."

It is still possible that someone might want to share a circuit design,
including code, and still make it commercial.  It has happened,
and can happen again.  There are many of people out there that
find devices they like thru web searches, but don't have the skills,
time, or equipment to build one themselves.  Many manufacturers
even list a project kit and assembled version side-by-side, and
are willing to share the circuit design and code.  Look at an
electronics magazine -- they start off with a circuit, code, parts
list, and operational description, then list a kit and assembled
version for sale.

The intent of my original statement was to question why the
commercial limitations were being imposed.  That's all.

Cheers,
-Neil.




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Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: PICList free PCB contest!


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> Who is "prohibiting you taking an idea commercial"? I'm just saying that
if
> you enter the contest and publish the design, you can't, later on, say
> "please remove that from the web site, I want to make it myself and sell
it
> and I don't want people to be able to download it and make it themselves"
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