[wsfii-discuss] OpenHardware Meeting - Paris Dec.13th 2007

Wed Nov 7 17:59:16 UTC 2007

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 16:05 +0100, Gregers Petersen wrote:
> 
> Marten Vijn wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:30 +0100, Juergen Neumann wrote:
> >> Hi all!
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > That a great idea,
> > 
> > Sam Leffler is working on something like this. ( Based EuroBSD congress
> > Copenhagen)
> >
> 
> Not quite - Leffler is working/has been working on a project based on
> the use of common hardware, which is supported by the Linux kernel. 
> But,
> is is as such not really 'open hardware' in the sense put forward by
> this initiative.
> 
> I'm here not stating that Leffler is doing anything wrong, I really
> think he's doing very interesting work. But, it is just a different
> 'point of departure' - I've already forwarded the announcement to Sam
> and I hope that this initiative eventually can unfold into a broader
> platform for information exchange and collaboration.

bundling expertise would be fine here, that was my intention, 

thanks, 

Marten

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> Chz
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