https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smari-mccarthy-on-some-issues-with-open-hardware-licenses/2008/03/10 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 26 May 2008 03:31:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smari-mccarthy-on-some-issues-with-open-hardware-licenses/2008/03/10/comment-page-1#comment-245252 Mon, 26 May 2008 03:31:15 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smari-mccarthy-on-some-issues-with-open-hardware-licenses/2008/03/10#comment-245252 […] Smári McCarthy on some issues with Open Hardware Licenses […]

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smari-mccarthy-on-some-issues-with-open-hardware-licenses/2008/03/10/comment-page-1#comment-204718 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:11:39 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smari-mccarthy-on-some-issues-with-open-hardware-licenses/2008/03/10#comment-204718 t what theyâ€re designed to do, so the wording is all wrong. Itâ€s like selling vodka as a disinfectant. Itâ€ll do the job marvelously, but a lot of people will remain skeptic. [...]]]> […] As I said previously in an article that appeared on the Peer-2-Peer Foundation’s blog: The problem with Open Source licenses on physical objects is that even though they might do the trick in a legal context, it isn’t what they’re designed to do, so the wording is all wrong. It’s like selling vodka as a disinfectant. It’ll do the job marvelously, but a lot of people will remain skeptic. […]

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