Re: [zd1211-devs] Re: New Source Code Contribution From ZyDAS

[Markus K. <mar...@gm...>]

> Clearly if they want to do things in this manner there is no way we can
> stop them.  But I don't see how what they are doing makes sense.  If
> they were keeping their driver proprietary and it had some features
> that are missing from this project's Free version it's easier to
> understand why they might want to remain in competition with us.  But
> they are allowing us to make use of any bits of their code we find
> useful (and releasing useful documents to us) - so why are they
> insisting on continuing their development partly behind closed doors?

Competition is not a bad thing. If two team provide GPL implementations for 
the same problem, after finishing both teams can take a look at the other 
team's solution and learn from it.

If this would not be true, there would not be a market for Tomcat AND Jetty, 
for JBoss AND JOnAS, for...

> I can't see their motivation for continuing their development at all
> given what you say.  If they are not in competition with us that means
> they have no interest in people using their driver over ours - so why
> not collaborate more?  Who knows, they might find some of our changes
> useful :-).

As ZyDAS told me, their driver is targeting another market than we do. Ours is 
for USB dongles, theirs is for embedded applications. So their driver is not 
actively maintained, it's a kind of side effect of their work.

They are not interested in providing their own driver for USB dongles, it just 
exists "by incidence".

Markus