[Discuss] OSHW Best Practices / Layers of Openness

[Tom Igoe]

What that says is that OSHWA isn't yet a strong enough brand.  

Back to Marco's point, the power in a brand is only there if you feel the logo from the outside cert body increases the legitimacy of your work in your customer's eyes.


On Feb 28, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Andrew Orr wrote:

> It's silly because it is a restriction that discourages adoption. If I was told tomorrow that I need to pay a fee to toss an OSHW logo on my boards, I would just stop putting them on, and replace them with my own open source hardware logo, and it would likely involve robots and lasers somehow.
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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Tom Igoe <tom.igoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is it silly?  It's a standard way many certification orgs raise cash to support the org, isn't it?
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> On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Andrew Orr wrote:
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>> I also would like to add that I think a payment/license to use the OSHW logo is silly, but at the same time donating to OSHWA should be made easier (arbitrary amounts separate from membership dues)
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