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Why would they bother?
by megous 7y ago
Why would they bother?
- wmf 7y agoArduino, Trezor, and 3D printers (I forget the name) have all been cloned. It's a real concern for companies that are trying to fund open hardware R&D by marking up the hardware. Currently I doubt there's enough demand for the Librem phone to justify cloning though.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoWell Prusa, the creator of the most cloned and world most popular 3D printer design is happy about all the clones. And they occupy different spaces in the market. Clones are $250 and the Prusa is $1000. And yet business is booming. As an open hardware creator myself my hope is always that someone else better at manufacturing will clone my work so I can source from them and focus on whatever reasons I had for making the hardware.
- megous 7y agoAlso, Librem 5 schematics are GPL, so it would be sort of weird to make copying into something negative, while using the copyleft license.