On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:31 PM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/4/8 [email protected] <[email protected]>: >> 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. > UBB? ATBEN? ATUSB? :P
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