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(Not a criticism of purism but of how little is required to say "Open Hardware" in general). I have to say how disappointing it is what counts as open hardware.
by pretendgeneer 7y ago
(Not a criticism of purism but of how little is required to say "Open Hardware" in general).
I have to say how disappointing it is what counts as open hardware. A simple schematic and some xrays? Why not the Kicad(I'm pretty sure that's what they said they used to make it) files, or maybe an openboardview [1] .brd file that would actually help for device repair and hacking on the phone at a hardware level.
As a comparison to FOSS this is the equivalent of releasing a binary and some header files.
[1] https://openboardview.org/ https://openboardview.org/
- seba_dos1 7y ago>I'm pretty sure that's what they said they used to make it That was said about the devkit. Gerber files are supposed to be released in a few years, after recouping development costs.
- beatgammit 7y agoI sure hope this is true, and it would be a show of good faith to give it to anyone who asks that also signs an NDA or something until the development costs are recouped so people can at least repair them easily.
- dfox 7y agoI don’t know what EDA software was used to produce the schematics, but it certainly wasn’t KiCad. Also from the overall style it looks to me like the schematics actually were created by some east asian ODM and not by Puri.sm themselves.
- knolax 7y agoHow can you tell? I'm curious as to which specific details you're referring to.