Yeah, you can see in his comment he threw out the idea even of open source after he didn't raise enough money. Still great to get the plans.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 23:26 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >> Crap, they didn't get enough money :( >> >> They should try http://pledgie.com > > Not sure this would be any more successful... open hardware geeks are > cheap, period! Anything significantly more expensive or complicated to > build than an AVR breakout has little chance of working with them. > > No geek would build that CNC machine. It's too expensive (and lacks the > romantic cliché of "I build cool stuff with scrap parts that the evil > consumer society carelessly throws away") and it's too complicated. > > IMO the Qi Hardware goal and approach is good: mass produce professional > open devices that could be made cheap, while still allowing the minority > of companies and people who are interested in the open design to benefit > from it. > > It's the normal - and proven - hardware industry upgraded to the age of > the copyleft and Internet :) > > S. Totally. I still would like to see other hardware from others go up on qi-hardware site. Jon -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ | http://fabricatorz.com/ chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
