Re: New forum topic - Open Control
Feb 8, 2002 5:18 pm, by Hullsiek, William
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Suggested improvement to definition of Open Control

One attribute of an Open Standard is the availability of source-code examples, i.e., done under Gnu or University type of sponsorship, hence the popularity and low cost of TCP/IP.

Many vendors offer the IP protocol suite at a nominal charge, because they can take "Open Source" and port to their hardware at a minimal effort. Which is why *nix systems and IP work so well in a commercial environments.

FieldBus and MAP would have been done deals by now, if they had sponsored a University or other organization to develop the software /firmware "prototypes" and place them in the public domain.

- bill hullsiek

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