Jack Carroll
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Timothy Normand Miller" <[email protected]> To: "Jack Carroll" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 7:04:57 PM Subject: Re: [Open-graphics] Economics of open hardware Did you mean to email me only? On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Jack Carroll <[email protected]> wrote: > Hardware may appear to be zero-cost, when it's obsolete or otherwise no > longer wanted, but still functional. But getting it from the person who has > it to the person who wants it still has come cost, in transportation and in > making known the availability to the person who wants it. There's no > zero-cost physical equivalent to an on-line server. Services like Craigslist > are about as close as we can come. > > Jack Carroll > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Timothy Normand Miller" <[email protected]> > To: "Ilias K." <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:44:47 AM > Subject: Re: [Open-graphics] Economics of open hardware > > 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) > -- 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)
