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>> me in many instances. Why not give away the source code? It is >> useless without the hardware to run it on. > >I think you're right--I wish that more embedded developers had this view. then how do you protect a proprietary hardware design In general, if something makes it hard for people to keep the specs of hardware secret, I would consider that a step forward. The concealment of hardware designs for PC hardware has been a great problem for the free software community. I have little sympathy with someone who wants to keep hardware specs secret merely so as to beat out someone else.