Hey, just a thought......if you can twerk around with the Onstar system onboard the car, could you find a way to transmit signals to similarly-hacked Onstar autos and network your cars?
I could actually flesh this out and make it seem a little more feasible, technically, but I'm sick, it's stupid o'clock in the morning, and the cough syrup is not being good to me. yeah.
thing to ponder.
This is true. I personally think that the GPL is an excellent idea, and one of the best things that's happened to software in the past ten years.
However.
You do have to look at the future of your product.
Are you the sole supplier of this product? If so, then you may wish to hold on to your code and specifications and attempt to corner the market.
On the third hand, if you are the sole supplier of this product, it may well behoove you to release the source code for the drivers. This might encourage acceptance by the Linux (and Windows) crowd, as people could write applications that speak elegantly to your device.
Sadly, I haven't been around the *NIX/'open source community' long enough to know about the Open Group's misdealings with Motif.
However, this draft thingy looks pretty good; there are a couple things I'd look at in closer detail. For instance, observe the three distinctions between the various 'manifestations' of things "open source". Open Source Methods, for instance, bear little resemblence(sp?) to the concept of open source software licensing.
Notice that there is no "Key Point" under the second 'open source manifestation', open source licensing. Odd, that.
Note one of the recommended projects:
"Establish an "OpenForge" portal for The Open Group, where all of the various Open Group projects that are available in Open Source will reside. This portal could also be expanded to host deserving Open Source projects on the outside."
Sort of like a non-public, corporate-funded SourceForge? Hm.
Keep in mind, of course, that this is a draft.
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Hey, just a thought... ...if you can twerk around with the Onstar system onboard the car, could you find a way to transmit signals to similarly-hacked Onstar autos and network your cars?
I could actually flesh this out and make it seem a little more feasible, technically, but I'm sick, it's stupid o'clock in the morning, and the cough syrup is not being good to me. yeah.
thing to ponder.
...in Soviet Russia, the commercials recycle YOU! ...yeah.
This is true. I personally think that the GPL is an excellent idea, and one of the best things that's happened to software in the past ten years.
However.
You do have to look at the future of your product.
Are you the sole supplier of this product? If so, then you may wish to hold on to your code and specifications and attempt to corner the market.
On the third hand, if you are the sole supplier of this product, it may well behoove you to release the source code for the drivers. This might encourage acceptance by the Linux (and Windows) crowd, as people could write applications that speak elegantly to your device.
Food fer thought.
Sadly, I haven't been around the *NIX/'open source community' long enough to know about the Open Group's misdealings with Motif.
However, this draft thingy looks pretty good; there are a couple things I'd look at in closer detail. For instance, observe the three distinctions between the various 'manifestations' of things "open source". Open Source Methods, for instance, bear little resemblence(sp?) to the concept of open source software licensing.
Notice that there is no "Key Point" under the second 'open source manifestation', open source licensing. Odd, that.
Note one of the recommended projects:
"Establish an "OpenForge" portal for The Open Group, where all of the various Open Group projects that are available in Open Source will reside. This portal could also be expanded to host deserving Open Source projects on the outside."
Sort of like a non-public, corporate-funded SourceForge? Hm.
Keep in mind, of course, that this is a draft.
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"Jonas Miller. He's a nightcrawler. We all started out in the same lab, but Jonas went out and got himself some corporate sponsors. He's in it for the money, not the science!" -Twister