Just roll over, shrug their shoulders, and say "oh well"?

No, Mr. Media Giant, I expect you to die.</Goldfinger>

The hardware itself, if not patented, is simply in the Public Domain.

"The hardware itself" is almost certainly a FPGA. Verilog, VHDL, etc. are copyrightable works just like any other code.

If it's an IC of some flavor then in the USA you can protect the mask for 10 years.

If you absolutely want to give them the domain, then tell whoever to set up their own hosting and change the A records for the website to the new host while keeping the MX records and adding an old.example.com A record for people to access the old site while you transfer data between hosting companies. In the meantime, get a new domain and start updating everyone who emails you with your new address. After a suitable time (you no longer receive email at the old address), transfer the domain to this person.

As a bonus, it means that whoever is wanting to take over the domain is going to have to prove they're going to run it for several months. If they decide that it costs too much to run, flake out, or just turn it into a porn site, you can point the A record back and find someone else.

"Anyone will be able to buy model A and model B units, uncased, at the $25 and $35 price points from launch, with a Debian or Fedora software stack," he told Tom's. "Later in the year, we intend to add a case and a polished educational software stack; we hope to squeeze the cased version into the same price point, and we expect that educational users and people who wish to use the board as a home media center will choose this package in the long term."

For values of "anyone" meaning the first 10000 people to get in before the server implodes.

Don't forget that BigCorp 1-9 all feel that their patent is SO important to the functioning of the product that they deserve a 20% cut of your gross. Each.

The world has moved on since discovering that steam can make you go forward. These days, every little thing is sufficiently complex (especially with "convergence" and having one tool that does everything plus patents on "doing X that someone else invented plus Y that someone else invented on one device") that it is covered by hundreds of patents, all of which have inventors who feel like their patent is so vital to your thing that they ought to command 2-3% of your gross.

A more financially responsible move would be to "INVEST" in R&D (with selection possibly based on a tender process)

Like Solyndra?

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Moreover, "process" patents are almost always about "using X (that someone else invented) do Y (which X was designed to do)". If you invent the screwdriver, should I really be allowed to patent of using your screwdriver to turn screws?