Talk:RepRap and Open Source

I am reorganizing the page RepRap and Open Source in the wiki, because I believe it is very important for the RepRap movement to firmly assert its basic principles and clarify the various questions that arise from the concept of Open Source and how it applies to hardware replication i.e. RepRap.

Now, the question of RepRap and Open Source can be examined from various angles and I am trying to bring all the previously available points of view into this single page.

The page is still very much work in progress right now and apparently there is not a single coherent, unifying view (which may be a good or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it) on this somewhat vast and controversial subject. So feel free to voice your opinion, either in the RepRap and Open Source page itself, in the Discussion tab here, or in a newly created page and add a link to it.

There was an interesting discussion about the use of Open Source 3D printable designs in the forum which surprisingly demonstrated that the subject was more controversial than what I would have expected, given that the RepRap movement is entirely based on the idea of Open Source hardware. The thread can be found here: Use of Open Source designs

--AndrewBCN (talk) 15:33, 20 July 2015 (PDT)

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