4 Nov
2011
4 Nov
'11
9:32 a.m.
On 11/02/2011 05:02 PM, Kieron Wilkinson wrote:
It would be nice to document completely as you want,
but we have very
limited resources, and unless there is much demand for something, we
would find it hard to prioritise it. I think you might agree that your
requirement is a little unusual... :) Kieron
Even more of a reason to document the hardware and open source some of
the software. If you do that, the community will help and support your
hardware and will create drivers for both the hardware as well as
provide conversion tools for file systems and low level formats.. Hell,
you should setup an SVN server and accept submissions.
Stick to selling the hardware and make that the profit center. The more
formats it supports, the more host systems it supports, and the more
capabilities it has, the more interest you'll generate, the more kits
you'll sell. It's not rocket science, and you won't have to spend tons
of time wring up code that others would be happy to, or worse have to
hire others to do it and cut into your profit margins each time someone
asks for a new file system or low level format.
Build something useful and open instead of locked down and useful only
in a very narrow sense.