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but still able to compete! WLC as opposed to WLC referenced on langreiter.com

If you compete, you suddenly might be T H E   W I N N E R. What then? Please tell us!

Sloppy Langreiter-reading exposed - how embarassing.

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the economical reason on the web is distribution cost which has been by all means zero in electronic media before and the evermore qualtiy destroying factor in newspapers mostly. in the web it has gone to reasonable factors in a way. the technical reason is the ingenuity of stupid lightway protocols that generate ever simpler stuff like the blogger. So people just do. Production cost dominated sites do not prosper but MS has not learned this lesson. Nice. Watch out for the next piece on what i think is/should be free and what is'nt/can't.

First of all, we do not want to and will not lose.

if you try to be a winner nowadays, take a card of both clubs: WLC I and WLC II or join: winner loose control: you lost already, you stuck in your development, because things are not easy to change anymore. freedome is gone. you have to fullfill other wishes (lot of examples around). just because mcluhan got already mentioned - was´nt one of his rules more or less: if a lot of energy is put into something to preserve it, it is a sign, that something new/very old is in the back to pop up again. counting this in this nowadays existing timeframe, where the old days have been nearly yesterday, what would that mean for software??? it´s free, no?

if it is free now, then only virtually. Nobody talks about free hardware although nearly free hw exist virtually. It did exist in the radio age.

wouldn´t say that. there are some groups around and following speech about openhw will be given at the "field programming logic" conference these days in belfast.

some problems: "cost of EDA tools: individuals can not afford commercial EDA tools. this makes OpenSW developers start developing free EDA tools such as gEDA and Alliance which enables OpenHW designers to work at home. 2. cost of manufacture: HW manufacturing is relatively expensive, so OpenHW designers can use simulation or programmable logic devices to check their designs. 3. design protection: no one in the world likes to give his ideas and work for free, unless there is some kind of control and protection over his work. currently there are some groups on the net who try to define some kind of protection. one of these groups, is the OpenIPCore project which has several suggestion like "openNDA, GNU like license, OpenPatents ... etc" (quote from "open hardware design trend paper")

metaphorically and statistically as opposed to the open source and free software debates, really nobody discusses open or free hw issues. Everybody is used to pay for their hw, some less and many quite a lot. That's why i put in Lynn Conway. She kind of pioneered Open Hardware by writing and publishing Introduction to VLSI Systems with Carver Mead. Jim Clark made a fortune out of work begun in her first course.

BUT: thx as ever for your lnks.

questions, pleeease!

we're devouring this stuff now. Thx for the kind comment. There always must be reasons for worse is better, i guess, i'll reread the Gabriel paper.