Oh my I love this, open source hardware is the future.
Come to think of how Red Hat is doing great even though they are an open source company. Why can't this work for hardware as well?
Come to think of how Red Hat is doing great even though they are an open source company. Why can't this work for hardware as well?
I'd be concerned about drafting up blueprints and having them copied by Chinese manufacturers.
Though what I'd do is make my first system just standard libre rights on everything, and that should build a platform for me to kickstart / donation fund future design efforts, and when those are done just release those as free as the last without a care if someone dupes the hardware because we already funded the design.