[Discuss] the significance of oshw

Tiberius Brastaviceanu tiberius.brastaviceanu at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 19:03:50 UTC 2013


I am glad to see Joshua Pearce here too :)


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Catarina Mota
<catarina at openmaterials.org>wrote:

> 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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