"Question, how would GM, Boeing or Dell react to the 'napsterization'
of manufacturing?"
One of the more interesting questions that came up in my own mind when
pondering all this unregulated production potential. But I don't think that
anyone could stop it. With napster you had wholesale violation of copyrights
and with independent manufacturers that aren't actually stealing others
copyrights
(I am thinking that with hardware it is easier to produce clones with
substantial innovations to them so there is no violation) than say just copying
a led zepplin
song over the internet. Besides I'd like to see someone challenge the present
protections of the "free" market system that we have going now.
So why not start now with with a 2 tin model and move up to a stylish portable
case over time, or turn an old clock radio into a slow but capable computer.
John
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:10:34 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > After seeing the minty mp3 page, psp hacks wanted and the embedded
> > > linux devicees. I started wondering how soon we will see home brew
> > > (from the PCB up, and kits) PDA/PocketPC devices. It looks like
> > > there will be a plethora of premade devices with all sorts of
> > > capabilities like the psp and ds etc, and they look prcy but there
> > > are lots of versions of touch screens to gadgets already out as
> > > well.
> >
> > I think DIY hardware is the only reasonable approach to the post-PC
> > era for open source advocates.
>
> Yup, the people must have access to self-replicating means of production
> like this http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab/replicator/
>
> Seriously, it's obvious that we are moving into an era where if
> something can be conceived, it can be built. Which is another way of
> saying that design time (aka Non-Recoverable Engineering time) is
> becoming the major cost-input to manufacturing.
>
> As such a project along the lines of the FSF applied to hardware is
> beginning to make sense in that it allows small players to leverage
> each others efforts.
>
> Question, how would GM, Boeing or Dell react to the 'napsterization'
> of manufacturing?
>
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