Hear hear,
> These little home shops don't have to pay employee
> healthcare nor pay corporate taxes. They can likely pay the lower
> capital gains taxes on what their robots, cnc mills and Fab machines build.
>
Things are not that different on the other side of the world (the
Netherlands).
> Some guy in his back yard may well cast the
> parts in his back yard for me out of scrap metals.
Well, there are all kinds of environmental issues on this. I do remember
that a steel construction company in my old town used to produce a lot
of welding fumes but nowadays due to law they have to filter all their
welding fumes (so the smell of burning brakes really were burning brakes
last week ...)
> These same people will not have to drive 20 miles to work everyday
> and may not wear out a car every ten years making that trip. Mass
> transit may be an idea that has come and is now going.
>
During the industrial age we noticed that a lot of the small companies
where vanishing and people started working at large companies. In the
beginning these persons got housing nearby there workplace but meanwhile
this changed and now the Dutch government finds it normal to have your
work on an hour travel distance from home.
Rush hour, traffic jams and air pollution are partly because of this.
Things are changing; there is a tendency to return to our roots. Start
your own small company or work for smaller companies in the area - as it
used to be years ago.
Thanks to the current financial crisis I am now getting a chance to
contribute to this change; ST-Ericsson was kind enough to 'set me free'
with a bit of capital to invest into my own future but without EMC2, and
the machine I built, I would never have made this step.
> I am presently repairing microscopes but will soon be making medical
> parts for hospital beds, Xray machines etc. These will go freely all
> over the world where they are sorely needed and a big part of this will
> be, because of EMC 2.
In my case EMC2 is an enabler to get started. I am not starting a
production company - there are some CNC companies in my area able to do
a better job (in larger series) than I am. I am doing the design and
part of the programming and EMC2 is used to control my large gantry
style machine to do some prototyping only. Still an amazing job, the
last two weeks the machine was running 24/7 to create some very large
foam plugs and MDF molds.
> I have also decided that some of this
> money needs to go to the writing of software like Emc 2 so I plan to
> donate some of what I make to help develop.
Sounds a good thing. There is nothing about donations on the cnclinux
website (actually there is; some python scripts state you must donate to
a local food bank :-) ) except for donating your knowledge and sharing
your experiences with other users.
I agree with Kirk Wallace that bringing money into the game is a tricky
thing. It will change the rules we play by.
My donations go to the local food bank and to 'customers' who are
starting up their own small company and cannot (yet) afford the
investment in the sometimes expensive prototypes. Also the enviroment is
a goal I am donating to in a direct way: almost all my transportation is
done by bike or via public transportation and when possible I use
materials that are recyclable.
While the EMC2 team thinks about accepting donations, I will continue
donating to our local community and the environment.
One other thing we can do to donate is to enlist ourselves as an EMC2
user on www.linuxcnc.org by creating a user account and make yourself
visible on the user map. On one side it is an acknowledgement to the
EMC2 developers that their system is being used world wide, on the other
side it is nice to see for ourselves where other users are located.
Regards,
Rob
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