[Arm-netbook] R-Pi Only Better and More Available?

[Vladimir Pantelic]

lkcl luke wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Vladimir Pantelic<vladoman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>>     the scope and scale of this project is really, really large.  i
>>>  haven't mentioned much about it, mostly because it's *confidential* but
>>>  also mostly because if i actually described what's going on and what's
>>>  involved there's a risk that many people simply wouldn't believe it.
>>>  contact with PRC State-Sponsored companies normally don't just
>>>  "happen", and we're unbelievably lucky to have the opportunity.
>>  ...
>>
>>  As a rather passive onlooker so far, I have to admit that by my book
>>  this *is* cloak and dagger.
>
>   ok... so i should breach confidential information, should i,
> jeapordise the deal and then there won't _be_ a project, and that's
> what you want, is it?

you don't have to breach any confidential information. The only thing
you have to do is to state upfront who is involved with the "project"
and what are the terms and that there is stuff like a patent involved
which at least to me is very unusual in a "open hardware" project.

Don't get me wrong, I am not crying foul because this goes against
my open hardware ethics or anything like that, I am just amazed that
none of this has been brought up before.

And if you cannot reveal all of this because it will *jeopardize* the
project, then yes, maybe you should not do this at all "in the open"