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  1. Mister Jalopy said it well on What Should Be In a Technology Bill of Rights? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The Maker's Bill of Rights
    • Meaningful and specific parts lists shall be included.
    • Cases shall be easy to open.
    • Batteries should be replaceable.
    • Special tools are allowed only for darn good reasons.
    • Profiting by selling expensive special tools is wrong and not making special tools available is even worse.
    • Torx is OK; tamperproof is rarely OK.
    • Components, not entire sub-assemblies, shall be replaceable.
    • Consumables, like fuses and filters, shall be easy to access.
    • Circuit boards shall be commented.
    • Power from USB is good; power from proprietary power adapters is bad.
    • Standard connecters shall have pinouts defined.
    • If it snaps shut, it shall snap open.
    • Screws better than glues.
    • Docs and drivers shall have permalinks and shall reside for all perpetuity at archive.org.
    • Ease of repair shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought.
    • Metric or standard, not both.
    • Schematics shall be included.

    http://makezine.com/04/ownyourown/