On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:14:24 +0100
Conor <schrodyn@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell <
> campbell@neotext.ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:46:40 +0100
> > Conor <schrodyn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any RFID readers supported by OpenBSD?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Conor.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > This:
> >
> > http://www.openpcd.org/
> >
> > claims to be an open design with GPL'd drivers,
> >
> > but this
> >
> >
> > http://www.motorola.com/business/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=1722e90e3ae95110VgnVCM100000840...
> >
> > should be fairly trivial to make work with OBSD, despite being a Windoze CE
> > box as
> > it has numerous open interfaces and claims to talk to SAP and IBM stuff ...
> >
> > The question of being "supported" is misleading as most of these devices
> > will
> > be designed to operate using standard industrial interfaces.
> >
> > Dhu
> 
> 
> Thanks Duncan,
> 
> The OpenPCD is what I was hoping would work with OBSD, I just don't have
> access to the hardware yet to try it. On a FreeBSD host most of these just
> appear with ugen0 and thats about as far as it will go. I'll look into the
> Motorola but I'm not willing to committ to buying something that isn't going
> to work, however the same could be said for the OpenPCD. Although at least I
> know that OpenPCD will unfortunately work with something like Debian or
> Slackware as a last resort. If I can get the hardware to work with OpenBSD
> it'll just be a case then afterwards of getting librfid to work. At the
> moment I'm trying to get the Omnikey 5121 to work while I await the OpenPCD
> reader. It is not going well as one might imagine.
> 

I've been thinking about this, and what is needed is an economic model.  
Proprietary supply chains don't have a need to be able to cross-reference
and check their "weight and measures" so they can tolerate a closed 
architecture.  Notably, closed architectures can be "first to market"
but cannot stay that way because they can't be "currently" (in RT) validated
by more than one party, so they amount to private "money".  However any commercial
organization or association with more than one member should be interested
in this because it will allow for multiparty validation of transactions.
Also, quite frankly, I can't see a viable taxation system without such
mechanisms, either.

Dhu


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> ATB,
> Conor.