Re: [ox] open hardware design
- From: Graham Seaman <graham seul.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:35:29 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Franz J. Nahrada wrote:
Dabei ist mir auch ein gutes Beispiel für "free
hardware design" untergekommen....zur Abwechslung
ein Möbel.
You can find many similar things referred to in a book
(not on the web as far as I know) - 'Design for the Real World',
by Victor Papanek. He was creating patent free designs for
furniture and machinery from the 60s on. Unfortunately one
problem is they can only be patent-free, which makes it hard
to stop people patenting minor variations on them later. There
is no equivalent of the gpl for patented designs or registered
designs (of course there could be, it is simply a question of
money :-(
best,
Graham
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