[p2p-research] why we need open hardware

[Josef Davies-Coates]

I'd add: because food is not the only basic need we really quite urgently
need to relocalise - we need to do it for manufacturing/ crafts too, and I
see open hardware and the best way to achieve that :)

Smiles,

Josef.


On 6 October 2010 00:19, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> nice contribution from the o-m list:
>
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> From: Allin Kahrl <osokuro at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Open Source Hardware Summit Debrief
> To: michael at michaelshiloh.com, "English Qi Hardware mailing list -
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>
> When I was a kid the school library was still full of do-science-at-home
> books from the three decades prior. These books suggested you could get
> really interesting chemicals at the hardware store or pharmacy, and
> magnesium filings or spring steel from any local machine shop.
>
> Along with access to a lot of diy-inclined adults, I really grew up with
> the
> impression that knowledge existed to be shared. That was really borne out
> at
> my first serious jobs in the early aughts, manufacturing reproduction hand
> tools whose patents had expired before my father was born. Anyone could
> have
> built those products, and we could talk all day about how we did it. It
> benefitted our customers enormously to know certain details, and without
> the
> infrastructure or skilled labor we had, nobody really competed with us.
>
> That's the sort of world I want to live in but each day I see the corporate
> manufacturing world trying harder and harder to keep a tight grip on their
> "IP" and thus keep consumers beholden. I know for a fact that people do not
> require exclusivity to do innovative things, but will not be shocked if I
> see lobbying to have patents renewed indefinitely in my lifetime.
>
> Open Hardware feels like the best way to create goods which can be fixed,
> can be taught, can be extended at the discretion of their owners. In
> theory,
> even if open components are used in proprietary assemblies, the original
> openness can never be appropriated. Changes to the open design must be
> published, so they don't need to infect their host hardware with openness
> in
> order to provide hooks of understanding for able owners. So I suppose my
> interest grows at least partly out of nostalgia.
>
> [allin kahrl]
> On Oct 3, 2010 12:08 PM, "Michael Shiloh" <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>
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