They, the people of the
open source hardware movement, in order to form a more peaceful community for sharing, establish bigger and cuddlier
Chumbies, ensure continued
Arduino creativity, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of hackery to ourselves and our posterity, have established the Open Source Hardware Draft. It's a sort of 11 commandments for those who would share or use an open source hardware design, indicating what documentation is required, how derived works must be allowed and, perhaps most importantly, that each use must include attribution to those founding engineers who came before. Its current version, 0.3, was ratified yesterday by a group of dignitaries including folks behind the Arduino, Adafruit, and Chumby, along with plenty of other underground industry big-wigs. Now that this bit of official business is out of the way, hopefully they can all get back to crafting
homemade coilguns.
posted July 14th 2010 9:35AM
Nice to see them all working together
@MichaelJJackson
This is Good News
Waiting for DRM Free DVD, Blu-Ray players, PCs, mp3, tablets, etc.
This is what we need Open Source Software + Open Source Hardware.
Oh and Open Internet Service Providers (that do not use dirty tricks like Traffic Shaping, violating Internet Neutrality).
Open World = Free World
@MichaelJJackson Please get a new name and avatar, you're abusing the memory of a beloved artist.
yay verily
I suppose the only problemn is that they can't be enforced so only respectable workers will follw them.
@yeoldgreat1 You could say the same thing about open source software. There are those that seek to profit off of other's work without attribution but on the whole it works quite well.
IMHO those open source alliance are a bunch of cretin that try to:
a) create some specification and limiting the freedom of the community.
b) working for free, then later some big company (such IBM) can take it, relabel it and present as a different (and close source) product.
c) self proclaiming them-self as the leader of the "open" movement, giving nothing to the community and talking a lot (for example Stallman).
And now, they are reinventing the wheel, every electrician can read a blueprint and most blueprints are for free without the need to be open source. Just pick a electronic magazine, there are plenty of projects that can be used for free. Even more, some companies gives free blueprint (and even, in some cases, a complete board) with the intention to sell some specific part.
@magallanes
Love your TUX avatar.
Linux FTW
How can a spec for open source hardware be enforced? Sony could come out with a new walkway and someone could reverse engineer it and come up with verifiable proof that they developed it previously. Seems good for some but really this could halt real innovation from large corporations as they try to figure out a way to combat this.
On the other hand who's going to believe that Joe blow from Idaho developed that new walkman/picoprojector/cellphone/ubuntulinuxos/psp 's hardware design anyways?
Needs some sort of legal barrier. I'm still not able to buy a Chumby in Canada due to them being threatened to be sued by a few companies the moment that they bring it here... It's a fucking alarm clock on steroids, is it really a threat to your media company?
They should mke the constitution open too. so I cn mod it for my own nefarious reasons.
I thought the title read "Open Source Handbag community..."
The image didn't help either.
What kind of patched together atrocity are we looking at here?
I'm not talking about the picture.
Sweet. Should make for some good laughs if it fails as hard as open source software.
Sorry folks, open source hardware community is too much. Sure, if I designed something awesome, I'd happily share all the technical details just like I GPL my code, but I don't want to see another purist community.
Bring on the ugly hardware with too many buttons.