>BKKCoins clearly stated it will be open source and has done so a number of times on his own schedule and not before he has tested the design out.
Open source usually means you make all the files in a project open for public viewing, in this case BkkCoins is keeping much of the project to himself and he's asking for licensing fees... Anyhow, if he's not releasing designs until it is "tested", that could be months from now.
There's not much sense in releasing something if you don't know yet if it'll work. With software, it's no big deal if it doesn't work. With hardware, though? If he put out some half-baked board-layout files and some nimrod then generated gerbers and had boards made, how long do you suppose it'd be before a flamewar erupted as a result of the wasted effort? With my own stuff, I only tend to push working, tested versions to GitHub (or whatever), not every little change.
