Comment by Russkel on November 23, 2010 at 7:13am

Bravo. :)

Comment by Paul Mather on November 23, 2010 at 10:11am

Melih, good luck! I know the world will love an open source OSD!

Comment by Mark Grennan on November 23, 2010 at 12:59pm

I want!

Comment by Renato Aranghelovici on November 23, 2010 at 2:49pm

Let the revolution begin !

Comment by Matthias Badaire on November 23, 2010 at 4:43pm

Ready to click buy as soon as the source is availanle on : http://www.flytron.com/simpleosd.htm
HappyKillMore, I am confused .. why don't you release remzbi's osd source code then ?? did I miss something ?

Comment by Renato Aranghelovici on November 23, 2010 at 11:31pm

Because remzibi OSD firmware itself is not HK work.

Comment by viky on November 24, 2010 at 2:39am

Open FARC is interesting one.

Comment by Paul Mather on November 24, 2010 at 6:34am

Yes, Matthias, Renato is right. Remzibi wrote the firmware for the OSD. He did/does not want to make it opensource. My PC program only configures the BIN file that gets written the EEPROM. I thought about making mine opensource, but I'm using a few 3rd party ActiveX controls for the COM port and input boxes that would require each user to purchase that wanted to edit the source.

Comment by Mark Grennan on November 24, 2010 at 6:55am

I'm ok with the firmware not being open source as long as the hardware is open. Hardware has intrinsic value. Software is more imperial. If someone is unsure they can recover their can protect their value by open source-ing the code I'm OK with that. It doesn't mean they will get a return. Software is to easy to copy.

As long as the hardware is open, you can write your own code; maybe better code; maybe code to do something completely different.

I've seen revolutions happen and empires made because someone (Linus) allowed others to see and work with what they had done while others (CP/M, Novel) faded away having once owned the industry because they couldn't believe their users would help them innovate.

Can I get an amen.

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