Just like we have software developed by the community, for the community. Can we have the same ideology applied to hardware ?
I happen to know one hardware project coming out of CERN that is under an open license, specifically their own CERN OHL.
That’s a pretty interesting example I think.
It does seem to work to a certain degree. We know of four suppliers who build switches according to that projects spec, although there is at least one trying to add proprietary bits in a second product line they push harder.
Open plans and schematics, interoperable, standardized. I should be able to unplug a component from my computer and plug it into another one. I should be able to replace broken parts. I should be able to, if feasible, make it myself with off the shelf components.
Let’s appreciate general purpose computers before the war against them will be successful.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
