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October 2, 2016 08:00 am

Ask Slashdot: Should An Open Source Hardware Project Support Clones?

Long-time Slashdot reader Ichijohas a question about "(not quite) open source hardware":One hardware project that calls itself "open source" doesn't want to make its hardware design source files publicly available because doing so would, in their words, "make it very trivial for e.g Chinese companies to start producing cheap clones... we'd be getting support requests for hardware we had no idea of the quality of." This answer was in response to a request by a user who wants to use the design in his own projects. Have any other open source hardware projects run into support issues from people owning cheap "clones"? Have clones been produced even without the hardware design source files? Leave your answers in the comments. Should an open source hardware project support clones?

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