OPEN SOURCE / PHILOSOPHY
Open doesn't mean free.
Open means yours.
Commercial products can be open. People can pay for professional manufacturing, quality assurance, convenience, support, warranty, documentation and continued development—without surrendering the ability to understand what they own.
What you buy is more than permission to possess a box.
Professionally manufactured product
Quality assurance
Convenience and support
Warranty
Continued development
Documentation
Distribution
The right to understand it
We don't want open-source hardware to merely survive. We want it to win.
THE FLYWHEEL
Commercial success can make open technology stronger.
Open TechnologyInspectable foundations.
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Market VisibilityGreat products reach people beyond the existing community.
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Commercial SuccessPeople choose the finished product.
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More ResourcesRevenue, audience, distribution and production capacity.
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Better Open TechnologyThe loop compounds.
OWNERSHIP
Ownership should mean ownership.
Understanding, repair and modification should not be treated as hostile behavior by the product you purchased.
COMPLEXITY
Complexity does not require secrecy.
A machine can be highly sophisticated while its important technical information remains available.
QUALITY
Open should compete at the highest level.
The goal is not hobbyist hardware with better messaging. The goal is excellent hardware that happens to be open.