[Discuss] "open spec": an ambiguous term?

[alicia]

Hmmm that's interesting. I haven't heard the term used outside of this
instance.

Cheers,
Alicia


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Linux.com and LinuxGizmos recently did a survey of top single board
> computers (SBCs):
>
> http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/773852-top-10-open-source-linux-and-android-sbcs
> http://linuxgizmos.com/top-10-hacker-sbcs-survey-results/
>
> Interesting crop of boards and results, but the term "open spec" is
> used as the qualifier.  If "open spec" implies that information needed
> to reproduce the board is available, then the 1st place SBC in the
> results would be disqualified (no Board Layout, no Bill Of Materials).
>  If not, then I'm confused by what exactly they mean by the term.
>
> I see the "open spec" term used again here:
> http://linuxgizmos.com/open-spec-com-features-quad-core-rockchip/
>
> So I wanted to get the opinion of the list if:
> is "open spec" a common term?
> does its usage dilute the meaning of "open source hardware"?
>
> thanks,
> drew
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