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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.
Why does any sort of non-trivial undertaking require a kickstarter nowadays? With the proliferation of dSLR's and youtube wannabes I'm sure he could find half a dozen people with the gear who would be prepared to do it for the experience. Documenting a conference doesn't require a great deal of skill or creativity, just make sure they are exposed and in focus, sounds already been sorted and they stand reasonably still.
The second one is better. I found this one to be pretty far from my point. Next time I'll give the Slashdot folks a transcript.
Bruce Perens.