[Discuss] the significance of oshw

[Catarina Mota]

Thanks for sharing this Tiberius. And sorry for taking a while to respond,
I've been traveling and I'm only catching up now. Just added Joshua
Pearce's testimonial to the page <http://www.oshwa.org/testimonials/>.
Please keep them coming!


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Tiberius Brastaviceanu <
tiberius.brastaviceanu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you have a gmail address?
> I posted your doc in SENSORICA's G+ community.
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/107373194261836770172
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Catarina Mota <catarina at openmaterials.org>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Matt, I added your comment to the testimonials<http://www.oshwa.org/testimonials/>
>> .
>>
>> Michael Shiloh, it would be awesome to hear your take on the educational
>> side.
>>
>> Anyone else has testimonials about the significance of OSHW they'd like
>> to contribute?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Matt Maier <blueback09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "How much would a prostetic hand cost?"
>>> "10,000 dollars."
>>> "How much did your own design cost?"
>>> "I dunno, like, ten bucks."
>>>
>>>
>>> http://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/open-source-hardware-allow-casual-people-to-make-innovations/
>>>
>>> This is the kind of improvement that's possible in technology when you
>>> don't keep secrets. 3D printers have been around for decades, which means a
>>> simple, writs-activated prosthetic hand could have been manufactured on 3D
>>> printers and sold for $50 a long time ago. But nobody did that because it
>>> was more profitable to just keep everything a secret and make people pay
>>> through the nose for a proprietary solution.
>>>
>>> Open hardware allows the actual lowest-cost solution to be widely
>>> shared. It means that the people who actually NEED the lowest-cost
>>> solutions can just provide for themselves instead of waiting for the market
>>> to maybe deliver it, eventually...for a price that takes advantage of their
>>> need.
>>>
>>> All of those zeros in the price of commercial prosthetic hands have
>>> nothing to do with the inherent technology. They're a reflection of how
>>> much people are willing to pay when they need a new hand. Open hardware
>>> removes those zeros, reduces prices by orders of magnitude, simply by
>>> negating the price that can be charged for secrets.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Catarina Mota <catarinamfmota at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've been thinking about the real significance of open source hardware.
>>>> We spend a lot time discussing how to do OSHW right. We usually explain its
>>>> advantages by saying that it allows people to copy, modify, and transform
>>>> hardware, which leads to faster development and better technologies. But I
>>>> think there is more to it than that. In some recent conversations, a few
>>>> people mentioned the sense of empowerment and liberation that comes from
>>>> creating and modifying technologies, which makes me think that there are
>>>> deeper cultural implications here.
>>>>
>>>> So I was thinking that it would be nice to compile a series of
>>>> testimonials about what people perceive as the personal, practical,
>>>> political, cultural, social or economic advantages and disadvantages of
>>>> open source hardware.
>>>>
>>>> If OSHWA agrees, we can create a page for these testimonials/opinions
>>>> on oshwa.org. Or, if for any reason, that is problematic, I can find
>>>> another place to publish them. I just think that it's important to put a
>>>> more human face on our outreach efforts (rather than just publishing
>>>> technical and legal information).
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone want to contribute? There's no structure, just whatever you
>>>> want to say about this topic. If you post your opinions on this list I can
>>>> collect, compile and publish them (on oshwa.org or somewhere else).
>>>> Hopefully this can also trigger an interesting discussion :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Catarina
>>>>
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