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[News] RepRap (GPL) versus 'Intellectual' 'Property' Attorneys

The open source ?make anything? machine

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| I spotted an interesting story in the Guardian newspaper over the
| weekend about RepRap, the "self-replicating rapid prototyper" project
| at Bath University.
| 
| [...]
| 
| "I did not want an individual, company or country to make money from
| this," Rep Rap founder, Dr Adrian Bowyer, told The Guardian. The
| results of the RepRap project are available under the GNU General
| Public License and are available at SourceForge.
| 
| Another point of interest, given the current climate in the open
| source market, is that it is already being predicted that RepRap will
| fall foul of IP lawyers. "Somewhere along this line the intellectual
| property people are going to come in and say 'No we don't want you
| all printing out Ferraris and we don't want you printing out
| pizzas'," Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, told The
| Guardian.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/the_open_source_1.html


Previously mentioned in c.o.l.a:

        Self-Replicating Machine Runs Linux

http://tinyurl.com/ygfpsj
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_frm/thread/2e2c409e229a44f4/a81447e67f68b10e?lnk=st&rnum=1#a81447e67f68b10e

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