On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:40:05 +0200, Hadron wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?
>>
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>> | That's because the Arduino board is a piece of open source hardware,
>> free for | anyone to use, modify, or sell. Banzi and his team have
>> spent precious | billable hours making the thing, and they sell it
>> themselves for a small
>
> "precious"
>
>> | profit while allowing anyone else to do the same. They're not |
>> alone in this
>
> "small profit"
>
>> | experiment. In a loosely coordinated movement, dozens of hardware |
>> inventors
>
> "loosely coordinated"
>
>> | around the world have begun to freely publish their specs. There are
>> open | source synthesizers, MP3 players, guitar amplifiers, and even
>> high-end | voice-over-IP phone routers. You can buy an open source
>> mobile phone to talk | on, and a chip company called VIA has just
>> released an open source laptop: | Anyone can take its design, fabricate
>> it, and start selling the | notebooks.
>
> Crazy eh? Someone will undercut them and they will go bust. Then the
> copycat will hoist its prices. Welcome to the real world.
>
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Then again, Linux sounded pretty insane, too, back in 1991, when
>> Linus | Torvalds announced it. Nobody believed a bunch of part-time
>> volunteers could | create something as complex as an operating system,
>> or that it would | be more
>
> Huh? university under grads were doing it all the time.
>
>> | stable than Windows. Nobody believed Fortune 500 companies would
>> trust | software that couldn't be "owned." Yet 17 years later, the open
>> source | software movement has been crucial to the Cambrian explosion
>> of the Web | economy. Linux enabled Google to build dirt-cheap servers;
>> Java and | Perl and
>
> Don't be ridiculous. It didn't enable any such thing. It saved them a
> few quid per machine.
Yea verily, the Oracle hast articulated and mere mortals gasp at the
sheer audacity of his pronouncements.
Plonker.
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I'm always polite, reasonable and kind.... except when I'm not.
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