On 01/03/2016 10:37 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > Perhaps open source it? If you want to make money, perhaps work out a > license for the software.
Oh absolutely open source it. Hardware and software. Open source built Fluxeon (my old induction heater company) and now it's building Tnduction (my new one). We offered almost all our products as open source. Bare boards, kits and A/T boards. I think we sold all of 5 bare boards. The kits were a disaster. People CANNOT solder, nor can they read resistor color codes. Or follow instructions, for that matter. And after they tried to build a board using a Weller soldering GUN, they'd want free support. We sold quite a number of A/T board kits. Most of those sales resulted in the sale of a Roy, our standard-bearer product. Open source got us started and it continues to contribute to sales today. John -- John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN http://www.tnduction.com <-- THE source for induction heaters http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarbraJoanOriginals <-- Affordable Fine Art Originals PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/568961EF.8030406%40neon-john.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
