Wrong. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware for (much) more information, this is reall

Wrong. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware for (much) more information, this is really quite the thing right now. You might disagree with the definition, if you somehow consider all the information that goes into the manufacturing of a physical object to be something else than the "source" for taht object, but this is how the term is being used by a lot of people, who are actually doing this.