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Re: open hardware certification document: second pass

bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:

> 1. Sufficient documentation on the device must be available for a competent
>    systems programer to write a device driver. The documentation must
>    cover all of the features of the device-driver interface that any user
>    would be expected to employ.

The documentation is for the systems program, so the user wouldn't be
expected to (directly) employ any of the features.  Use `operating
system' instead of user perhaps?

> 3. Where the device is offered with packaging and/or instructions in a
>    national language, the documentation must be available in that language
>    as well.

This is an unreasonable requirement.  We shouldn't require the
manufacturer to undergo the extra expense of translating their
development docs just because they translate the user docs.

>    A. As a document published to the global internet and expected to
>       remain available while the device is offered for sale.

What about discontinued products?  What about companies that go out of
business?  The document should be available longer than the sale
period.

>    B. In a published book currently in print and available at bookstores
>       in any nation where the device is offered for sale, selling for a
>       price not substantially more than similar technical books.

Very vague.  This is presumably for cases when the book is not
published by the manufacturer (otherwise they could just give it away
in C).  The manufacturer then has no control over whether it's in
print, price, and availability.  If I decide, for example, to write a
book called _How to Program Lots of Different Graphics Cards_, Diamond
should still provide documentation.  I would strike this method.


Guy


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