RepRap: An open source 3D printer for the masses

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RepRap: An open source 3D printer for the masses

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1996480704

 

What is the benefit of having the entire project under the GNU GPL license? What benefits are there in RepRap being open source?

 

If you have a machine that copies itself, the only thing you can do with it is to give it away. Try to sell it, and you only sell one... Try to protect it legally and you spend the rest of your life in court trying to stop people doing with the machine the one thing it was designed to do...

 

The GPL forces people who improve RepRap to make those improvements available to everyone, thereby maximising the rate of evolutionary progress. I personally gain nothing from giving it away, of course. But I don't need anything, and I enjoy running the project, so that's fine.

 

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Open Graphics Project to Announce Pre-Orders

 

http://kerneltrap.org/Hardware/Open_Graphics_Project_to_Announce_Pre-Orders

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