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Hi everybody,
Wow, what a thread, and I am unfortunately not as fast a reader in English as Jon says above, and I must admit I have not read everything but picked up a few ideas with which I fully agree.
I didn't want to answer too fast, as I am still not sure to have a clear opinion yet about that .
To make it short :
- Like Paul above, not sure for the real need, and that button "request for plan" would definitively help
- Like C-Bag above, I am really questioning on the future of the site if things start to be commercial, I mean it will become a simple catalog, with people not publishing all the details as they will want to sell them ...
- I personally never sell any kind of my craft or intellectual private work, for different reasons, but mainly because it is not my official job, and legally as well as fiscally, I don't want to enter into troubles with that. One day I could have to reconsider that, for the moment this is not the case.
- Last and not least, I am a real believer in the "Open" principle, open source / open hardware ... .
I feel I have some kind of debt towards the big anonymous community of the Web from which I have learned so much of my skills, or picked up so many ideas, and in return, I am really pleased whenever I can offer something in return.
This is why I am so attached to the Creative Commons licence, a principle where you can share (and possibly sell, that's not a problem) your work, with the only constraint for the user, if he modifies or resells it, of publishing that it is from your original idea, and he will continue to offer his work with the same licence.
Note that you can restrict the terms of the Creative Commons license if you want, for instance preventing the commercial use of the work.
I do really believe in this principle and see it like a technological Darwinism, a long chain of evolutions leading to the most optimal and well thought object.
I stop here, for me, I wait and see how it turns out !
Christophe
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