Peter Todd wrote:

> ... the increased publicity and strengthened opensource EDA
> community probably outweighs any theoretical lost sales.

In your case, I suspect the sales come more from A) having the ideas in the
first place, and B) having the contacts and the name you have (which you
have because you have the ideas in the first place and because you've spent
effort on this). 

Which of course wouldn't prevent some company in a far-away country to
(almost) copy one of your designs and sell cheap knock-offs in large
quantities. But then, little if anything would prevent this.

Gerhard

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