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13 Open Source Hardware Companies Make $1+ Million
kkleiner writes "Selling products whose design anyone can access, edit, or use on their own is pretty crazy. It's also good business. At the annual hacker conference Foo Camp East this year, Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried from Adafruit Industries gave a rapid fire five-minute presentation on thirteen companies with million+ dollar revenues from open source hardware. The thirteen add up to $50 million this year. While this business model is counter-intuitive for those accustomed to our current patent- and copyright-encrusted system, Torrone and Fried estimate that the industry will reach a billion dollars by 2015."
do you have an actual argument here or are you just ranting against open source concepts? Open source can use patented software if they so choose, first off. Second, even Microsoft declares themselves open source (even if obviously false), although they claim that the MS-PL is open source (and codeforge or whatever their version is called). Are you saying MS also uses tech from the cold war?
it'd sure explain plenty of things.
Second, even Microsoft declares themselves open source (even if obviously false), although they claim that the MS-PL is open source (and codeforge or whatever their version is called).
0/10. Poor troll is poor.
The thirteen add up to $50 million this year.
Wow, all that tells me is open source hardware is a TERRIBLE business model if that's all they're collectively making in revenue. Is that the point of the presentation?