2 Nov
2011
2 Nov
'11
4:46 p.m.
I sent them
mail [...]
I replied to this mail, twice. At least I tried. "I would
want documentatino on how to talk to the hardware, [...]"
My reply, in short,
was that the board has all standard components.
There is no firmware flashed to the board, it's uploaded from the
host software. There is nothing stopping you from using your own
software with the
board. I could say "why not use our firmware", but that would be a
binary again and you said you don't run precompiled software.
I do accept it for firmware under some circumstances, such as the
firmware in disk drives and the like.
In this case, if the interface your firmware presents to the host is
documented, I very well might be willing to do exactly that. (I don't
_like_ it, especially not as compared to open-source code, but I'm not
as dogmatic and strident about it as I am when it comes to software
running on the host.)
One last, personal thing: There were some replies with
"them" or
"they". It feels a bit odd, like talking about someone in
third-person when he's in the room. I follow the digest, so you can
address me.
Well, perhaps it's unusual of me, but, even if I were in a room, a real
physical room, with others, and person A described something A and some
others were doing, and then I were talking to person B about it, I very
well may speak of A-and-collaborators in the third person, even with A
right there.