Christof Beaupoil * Free Hardware, OpenDesign, F/LOSH (was: [ox-en] Conference documentation)
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 21:46:50 +0100
Free Hardware, OpenDesign, F/LOSH
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Christof Beaupoil [christof beaupoil.de]
5 Theses
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The theses are available at
http://www.beaupoil.de/c/flosh/theses.html.
Theses
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o Free* 1 -> Altruism
o Free* 2 -> Copiability
o Free* 1[PHONE NUMBER REMOVED] -> Abstraction of the Free Software
Phenomenon to Free-everything phenomenon
o 1% Machine -> Hardware fulfills Free* 1[PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
o It's here already -> Empirical "Proof"
o Steel Bullet Law -> Free Hardware is necessary
Free* 1
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o "Altruistic behavior is naturally occurring, intended and stable
even under extreme market-place-like conditions" S.S. Levine
o Human beings want "Selbstentfaltung" in the area of their own
interest. The Internet provides the capabilities to do this
globally with people of the same interest. This leads to a better
result than doing the same thing for economic reasons, because
the aim is not the fulfillment of a task with minimal effort but
to achieve the best result.
Free* 2
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o "What can be digitized will be shared" S.S. Levine
o If the possibility exists to make a 100% copy with 0 transaction
costs, so that the result of the "Selbstentfaltung" can be passed
on to other human beings, who can use it, improve it and pass it
on again, it will happen.
1% Machine
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Software = Sources + Build
process
Hardware = Sources + (digital + Build
material) process
90% + 10%
(R&D + + 90%
Blueprints) Standard
parts +
10%
Special
parts
o Most Hardware can be 99% digitized
o Hardware fulfills Free* 1 and 99% of Free* 2. This makes Free
Hardware possible.
o The 1% gap is the same gap that distributors close for Free
Software by providing an end-user product
It's here already!
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o Free Hardware exists
o www.otherpower.com
o www.slashdot.org
o Beamers, Rockets, Aircrafts, Biogas...
o ...I'll publish my link list on Monday
http://www.beaupoil.de/c/flosh/bookmark.html
Steel Bullet Law
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o "No profit maximizing organization will market a technical
improvement of one order of magnitude."
o Current problems of mankind make technical improvements of
several orders of magnitude desirable.
o Creation of monopolies, patent law and regulations will slow down
proprietary technical progress.
What next?
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o License Hardware GPL
o Tools (designforge.org, Free CAD Software, database for standard
parts)
o Projects (bring together people fighting alone)
o Distributors for non-standard parts and products
o Adopt further successful methods from Free Software
o Close collaboration with Free Software scene
Please Help!
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o opendesign beaupoil.de
o Thanks
Definitions
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Sources
Total information needed to produce the good. For Software this
is the source code. For hardware this is all information needed
to materialize the product (e.g. part lists, production and
assembly blueprints, CNC machine programs...)
Build process
For software a purely digital process which runs on a processor
without intervention. For material goods this is the production
process.
Standard part
Every part for which an ISO norm and more than one manufacturer
exists.
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