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I wonder if either openmoko or pid.codes actually check that the open hardware in the applications actually exist and work as advertised. Like, I could create
by k_sze 8y ago
I wonder if either openmoko or pid.codes actually check that the open hardware in the applications actually exist and work as advertised.
Like, I could create a stub project and publish it under an FOSS/OSHW license, but nothing in it actually works yet. Wouldn't it be a waste to allocate a PID to such project?
- ajross 8y agoOf course it would. But the truth is that while 65000 is a small number cryptographically, it's still a lot of throwaway toy open source projects.
- ascorbic 8y agoI know that pid.codes checks that you have actual, published open source code before he'll allocate you one. There's no reason to have one before that point anyway: you can always use a test code. It's only once the general public will be using it that you need a real, unique code.
- ksk 8y agoThat would only escalate the war. People would start out as an open source hardware project with minimal commits/docs and turn "evil" the moment they got assigned a code. Then they would have to account for that. War escalates again, go to step 1.