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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: How to get them to manufacture for us: An idea and a draftRe: How to get them to manufacture for us: An idea and a draft
From: roland <for_spam_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:36:46 +0100 dangerous.....! .....for apple`s ipod product line! :D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocker" <rocker_at_shaw.ca> To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:13 AM Subject: Re: How to get them to manufacture for us: An idea and a draft > Personally (if the world was perfect) The Rockbox team as well as dedicated > users would pool their resources and design our very own player and go into > business! loll! > rocker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Björn Stenberg" <bjorn_at_haxx.se> > To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 2:51 PM > Subject: Re: How to get them to manufacture for us: An idea and a draft > > > David H. Straayer wrote: > > I've done a (very crude) first draft of such an article, below. > > Let's pass it around and comment on it. I'll dredge through my > > old notes, and Google around to try to find placement for it. > > > > What do you think? > > An interesting initiative. I think you should be wary about painting a too > rosy picture, however. > > > An international team of open-source software writers has > > entirely re-written, from the "ground up", > > Nitpick: We haven't re-written anything. We've just written it. Re-written > would mean we've done it before. :-) > > > Here are some of the key advantages of this approach: > > 1. No software/firmware development costs. Obviously a big plus > > This is only true if the device they make is an exact Archos clone, which is > unlikely. After all, the Archos design is pretty old by now. Most new > designs will want to use better components and perhaps different features. > These changes, whatever they are, need to be supported by the firmware. > > A manufacturer can not depend on Rockbox, or any other voluntary team, to > write this for them, for free, on schedule. Open Source software is, by > definition, not written on schedule. > > What Rockbox provides them with, rather, is an "mp3 player starting kit". > For a small price (their changes), they get a complete mp3 player firmware. > All they need to do is adapt some of the drivers to their hardware. (Which > of course they could do by contracting one or more Rockbox developer.) This > will cut down their firmware development cost greatly, but it won't > eliminate it. > > I think it is important to stress the sharing part. The price they pay for > using our software is that we get all their modifications in return. This is > sometimes overlooked by companies who seem to view Open Source code as > freebies they can grab and use however they like. > > > the Rockbox team at > > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > > I would suggest linking to our front page http://rockbox.haxx.se rather than > the mailing list info page. If you like, you can list me as contact person. > > > They probably will even be > > happy to provide some preliminary schematics, > > Do you really mean this? Or do you mean we'll be happy to _review_ > preliminary schematics? I'm not aware of anyone offering perliminary > schematics. > > Overall I think it's an exciting initiative. I just want to make sure we > don't misrepresent the nature of Open Source Software or write something > that's "too good to be true". > > -- > Björn > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > > > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-03-22 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |