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Re: [ox-en] reprap, exploitation, free goods etc

Graham, Michel, all,

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Patrick Anderson wrote:

I didn't find any references to Graham's work here.


I should clarify what I mean by 'work'.

Graham is quoted here in the first article, but all he seems to be
saying is that Free Hardware cannot be accomplished:

"The term free hardware is particularly confusing since it implies
that the physical hardware, rather than its' design, is somehow free.
This is not normally true in the cost sense, and is meaningless
(except metaphorically) in a social sense."

But this is just confusing of the word 'Free' with "give away" which
RMS always warns us against.  We should instead be thinking of
'Freedom'.

"Freedom Hardware" (what I think of as "at cost" Physical Sources) IS
possible, it is just a matter of determining how we will recover the
real and recurring costs of those physical sources.

Is anyone here interested in discussing cost recovery needed for
"Freedom Hardware"?
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