Article 238EA Crowdfunding powerful open hardware that is truly open and respectful of your rights

Crowdfunding powerful open hardware that is truly open and respectful of your rights

by
Cory Doctorow
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Crowd Supply (previously) is an extremely effective platform for funding open source hardware development, boasting twice the success-rate of Kickstarter and Indiegogo; it is also the birthplace of the proclamation of user rights, an outstanding document that lays out the rights of users to explore their hardware, use it independent of any subscription, use it with any other service or hardware, use it indefinitely without fear of remote kill-switching, to transfer it to others, to freely discuss it, to use it privately, and to be informed of security issues. (more")

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