OK, so here is how I am picturing the deal. Everyone who writes a significant piece of code or designs a significant module up front will have rights to everyone elses designs who also participates in this fashion. When that is done, and we have reasonable solutions for a fair set of modules, we may wish to close it off for newcomers. However, We will publish the interface definitions and make them publicly available so that we don't become a hindrance to the technology. Ultimately, the goal is not just to make money, but to cut down the cost of solar power systems. This is extremely important for humanities future. We will examine the locations of the people who are originally involved in the engineering and try to make tentative global dividing lines as to marketing territories that give people the space nearest to them. There should be a lot of new, unconquered turf down this alley because the market has not yet properly responded to the drop in the cost of solar panels, so there should be a lot of options for doing new, related projects.
