On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:38:40PM -0500, George wrote: > Open hardware, open source, open market.
Is that so like that? Nanonote is not open hardware 100% (warning note: I am not completely sure about this: what is 100% open hardware?, but IIRC you can not make nanonote units easily). You need to buy them from the company who makes it and try to open it 100% yet. So open market is not so easy either. WEll, you can buy many nanonotes paying around 90 euros, and then sell them 90 USD, that is possible and open. But maybe you do not earn a lot of money. :P For me, open hardware and open source mean, in this case, in an open platform great to contribute with software and some hardware adds (like atben, atusb, ubb, serial stuff, etc). Make a community around them. Improve the stuff from your place. But this kind of electronic devices are not so useful for open market (if you want to get money selling them), whatever open market means. I would love to see the nanonote, M1, or any other product from this open hw/sw community with the succes which ORSAI magazine has : http://editorialorsai.com/ Check the youtube video. Sorry, in spanish only. BUt this magazine and this video is the most amazing open thing, with a huge community around it, which succeded from 2011. The magazine is expensive, no advertising in it, huge as a book, high quality, no editors or companies between the people who make the magazine and the community who buy it. All the writers and artists who wrote and painted for the magazine got their payments. And they sold 10.000 of #1 before they printed those. There were 4 numbers in 2011. They sold all the printed magazines during last year. And the ORSAI people do exactly the opposite to the magazines/movies/music industry say/force to do. Rafa > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:22 PM, James "Xakh" Lynch > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > From what I've seen, the tuxbrain price is actually quite expensive, 100 > > euros as opposed to the 99 usd sharism charges, 94 seems fairly reasonable > > knowing sharism's. > > On Feb 9, 2012 3:13 AM, "Christoph Pulster" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Seller "Freedom Included Inc" sells for USD 94 incl. shipping. > >> Is this Sharism itself ? > >> > >> As a reseller it is very hard to compete with this dumping price. > >> It is below my buy price from distributor Tuxbrain. > >> This is not good for the Qi project. > >> > >> Christoph > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Qi Hardware Discussion List > >> Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > >> Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > >> http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qi Hardware Discussion List > > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
