"Copyleft hardware is not nearly as widespread as copyleft software"
The core premiss is still true. And it's a huge factor difference. Even if you can cite counter examples, or things they missed the amount of software development happening on Github/Google Code/Sourceforge eclipses open hardware hacking.
It's awesome that early adopters like you are there, but remember that open programable hardware is still uncommon.
You're misquoting my quote ;) The sentence fragment I'm addressing is "...the Qi Hardware cites just four other projects that follow the same approach: the Elphel digital camera, Pandora game console, the Milkymist One visual-effects video synthesizer, and the Arduino microcontroller."
To clarify: there are more than 4 (or 3) other projects. I wish the author had looked a bit harder instead of using only the Qi website!
The Pandora they list isn't actually open hardware. In fact they're actually a bit worried (probably not realistically) that a Chineses knock-off factory will steal their market with a clone.
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"Copyleft hardware is not nearly as widespread as copyleft software"
The core premiss is still true. And it's a huge factor difference. Even if you can cite counter examples, or things they missed the amount of software development happening on Github/Google Code/Sourceforge eclipses open hardware hacking.
It's awesome that early adopters like you are there, but remember that open programable hardware is still uncommon.
You're misquoting my quote ;) The sentence fragment I'm addressing is "...the Qi Hardware cites just four other projects that follow the same approach: the Elphel digital camera, Pandora game console, the Milkymist One visual-effects video synthesizer, and the Arduino microcontroller."
To clarify: there are more than 4 (or 3) other projects. I wish the author had looked a bit harder instead of using only the Qi website!
Sorry, didn't mean to be a jerk.
It is cool that there are more than just those four projects.
The Pandora they list isn't actually open hardware. In fact they're actually a bit worried (probably not realistically) that a Chineses knock-off factory will steal their market with a clone.