Quote: (Originally Posted by silent running)
Hello Waruteru, not sure what you mean. Surely I'm as entitled to my opinion as Jason M is to his. Maybe your definition is the less open one. I think "open source" means that the designer and the users have an open channel of communication to facilitate a better design, before the unit is brought to market. Seems simple enough to me.-Andy
Perhaps my English is technically good only.
The question was literal, no other meaning hidden in the text.
In Japan, the philosophy of 'open source' is a sharing of ideas to make better with the overriding principle of sharing the fundamentals of that technology for free. Our way would release the design ideas for others to make their own propriety version based on the 'open source'. I do not think this is what is intended for this particular design.
I can live without the soup, but I must be allowed my rice and daikon!