Re: [libreplanet-discuss] making open hardware projects feasible

2017-05-24 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Interesting questions indeed. I must remind you the current status of China as a country which doesn't keep the essence of the GNU GPL when works under such license go inside the Chinese borders. This of course can perhaps only be solved internally by the Chinese State (Voters, Powers, and

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] making open hardware projects feasible

2017-05-19 Thread Dave Rolek
On 2017-05-19 04:13 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > [snip] > > For any given project, assuming finance is available to build an initial > order in bulk (e.g. 100 or 1000 units of whatever), how can a project > take the step into mass production? > > Can anybody make any suggestions about: > > - is

[libreplanet-discuss] making open hardware projects feasible

2017-05-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, There are some interesting innovations in open hardware, whether it is the NAS[1], the router[2] or something big like the food computer[3] Looking at the food computer, however, I see that people are still making up kits one at a time and the cost is therefore quite steep (one kit