On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ilias K. <[email protected]> wrote: > P.S. I would gladly pay for OSH as well, as long as it's guaranteed to last > for a long time.Regardless of whether I am believed, I have to say I don't > care about getting something for nothing. > But I believe that the existence of free-as-in-beer hardware would be very > beneficial in some cases where one cannot afford to pay for the hardware, > especially in situations regarding health, the environmental conditions, > life-and-death circumstances, developing countries etc-that's why I insist > in this notion.
This is a different matter. When someone gets hardware for free, because they cannot afford it, it's because someone else, who could afford it, decided to purchase and then donate it. That did not appear to be what you were originally postulating. You seemed to be asserting that we may be able to somehow make hardware that was zero-cost to make and zero-cost to distribute. (And by "zero", I mean asymptotically so.) You've put a great burden on your shoulders, to follow through with your proposition. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
