[Arm-netbook] EOMA - Open Specification?

[mike.valk at gmail.com]

2014-05-26 0:22 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:

> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Jonathan Frederickson
> <silverskullpsu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all. I've been following the progress here for a while, though I
> > wasn't subscribed at the time. Something Luke said a while back
> > concerned me, however:
> >
> > "so i am very sorry to have to spell it out, but you will *never* be a
> > customer of *any* EOMA or QiMod products, *ever*, and you will *never*
> > be granted a license to make EOMA-compatible products.  and that's not
> > my decision, but we both have to live with that."
> >
> > I can understand being blacklisted as a customer, and removing all
> > mention of EOMA, as it is (maybe?)
>
>  not maybe: is.  why would you question that?
>
> > a QiMod trademark. However, the bit
> > about being granted a license to make EOMA-compatible products is
> > troubling.
>
>  jon: you may not have been following the discussions from the past
> couple of years.
>
>  you may have not seen the scenario discussions where 3rd parties get
> the standard so badly wrong that they destroy not only the reputation
> of the EOMA standards but also create short-circuits that cause fires,
> destruction of personal property and possibly end up killing people.
>
>  do you want that possibility to occur?
>
>  if not, what solution would you offer?
>
>  please, before saying "this is troubling" actually think it through.
> if you can come up with an alternative strategy please describe it.
>

The scary thought is that the EOMA standard might not get off because
someone hogs to
1. Requires a unworkable fee to become complient
2. Others may get blocked purly on ego

That said. A standard needs to be protected and directed. Otherwise it
simply implodes or explodes.

If there is a "guide to EOMA compliancy", nobody should be to worried.

Exerpt:
Rule number one: Thay shall not put customers on fire!




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