[sdiy] No (free) hardware lunch

[The Old Crow]

   Generally, if I use someone's code and not something I wrote (and 
I've written realtime OSes in Z8 assembly for PID controllers so it is 
not like I can't program the things ;), I set up a residual payment 
system so the author gets some sort of tip.  It is a sort of "why 
reinvent the wheel when a published solution does what is needed" but 
balanced against the wishes of the author.  I always ask first. --Crow

On 4/10/2014 11:10 AM, Paul Schreiber wrote:
> Also, you don't have 50 people selling end-products using this so-called "free information". I think the vast majority of "code hobby people" are not reselling this code. They use it, get bored, move on to something else.
>
> No so in, especially now, the Euro rack world where there are literally 100 people futzing about.
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> Paul S.
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