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Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model (arvideonews.com)
Bruce Perens writes: At the TAPR conference this year, I did a talk on why Open Hardware licenses don't actually work, and how it would actually hurt us if they did. I'm not saying you should stop making Open Hardware, I just want to make sure you don't assume the license works better than it actually does. Also, I explain why my latest project is 100% Open Source but the hardware design is more restrictively licensed than the Open Hardware Definition would allow. The video is here. There's a long prelude of talk about Amateur Radio stuff before the Open Hardware part. But you'll probably find it interesting. Gary didn't succeed with the Kickstarter to fund recording the entire conference this year, but he made the trip and recorded it with a multi-camera shoot anyway, at significant personal expense. If you like the video, please help cover his expenses. Even $1 would help.
A text summary you could read in 30 seconds would not work, and it would actually hurt us if it did.
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Instead of video, which is still too short in my opinion, I present all of my information as a 3 day Japanese Kabuki theater presentation.
Bruce Perens, the inventor of parenthesis, is now spending the fortune he made in marketing punctuation on making the world a better place for Open Source software...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.