It's not a traditional business model. People do create out of interest,
without
promise of or desire for financial reward. TT by making inexpensive hardware
available will have a lot of control over the interface standards.
Interaction
with the developers and users will suggest changes that make sense and
afford
TT a much larger set 'design team' that will be investigating all the
'what if'
development paths, at no cost to TT, other than a small outlay to
establish the
initial 'orion derived' board set which will pay it's own way. It's just
another
product for another market, but TT benefits greatly from this market.
Look what happened with the IBM PC. TT is well positioned for the radio
analogue.
-Bob
Adam Farson wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>
><<... what would happen if the core hardware pieces were made available
>along with source code under modified public license...>>
>
>But this leaves unaddressed my questions as to who would develop these
>hardware pieces, plus the software to run them, and with what sources of
>funding. To say nothing of who would define the interface standards
>necessary to allow software and hardware of diverse provenance to
>interoperate in a manner acceptable to the presumed user community.
>
>Best 73,
>Adam, VA7OJ/AB4OJ
>North Vancouver, BC, Canada
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