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Am 04.09.2015 um 18:13 schrieb Javier Serrano
(javier DOT serrano DOT pareja AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]:
> Disclaimer: success in OSHW
> means different things to different people, and I see a lot of "no
> true Scotsman" arguments in the discussions, justified or not.

Javier,

see me positively surprised to see you on this list. The above is
certainly true. CERN is at about the opposite end of the market
spectrum, I made my experience in a field (RepRap 3D printers) where
many people are proud to have saved ten dollars with some trick. Most
companies there do open source their hardware and many are successful,
still I doubt they're successful for the reasons Open Source software is
successful. Setting marketing in form of riding the hype aside, I see no
reason why it'd work less well with closed source.

The thing where Nathan Seidle is entirely right is that resting on
patents doesn't work.

Perhaps it's a good idea to see Open Source hardware more like the habit
of consumer electronics vendors 50 years ago to make a full schematic
part of the end user manual. One can't count on collaboration to happen,
one can't expect to see a vendor-independent community growing, one has
to do _all_ the work, but one is also recognized as a nice guy and
people can learn about the inners of their device. This meets about my
experience and granted, I had quite different expectations a few years ago.



Markus

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