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Open hardware summit - Limor "Ladyada" Fried keynote

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    Um, hello, welcome.
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    I was just going to kick this off
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    by saying big ups to Ayah and Alicia!
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    [applause]
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    OK, so, a really quick introduction.
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    I'm Limor Fried, I run Adafruit Industries
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    which is in downtown Manhatten
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    so I got to take the 7 here.
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    And um I've been doing open source hardware
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    and selling it as part of this business since 2006
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    and I've got really good news
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    all of you who've heard me talk
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    I'm actually not going to talk about my business.
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    Um, because Ayah and Alicia said
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    "hey we want, you know, pragmatic, hobbyist, you know, solutions-based driven stuff"
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    and I was like OK you know I'm not going to
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    talk about all the details of shipping, manufacturing
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    and licensing and all that stuff.
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    I'm actually going to talk about
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    "Why Do Open Source Hardware?"
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    and specifically why I did open source hardware
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    and ah, maybe some of the reasons why
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    you may want to do open source hardware
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    if you don't.
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    Um so OK, so we're going to rewind
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    back to 2002 and 2003
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    we're going to stop at 2006.
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    So it's all going to be history.
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    So, you know, I grew up in Boston and, uh,
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    Boston is a bit of a sea of you know, the FSF,
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    the EFF used to be there too.
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    So there was a lot of like, you know, Linux-y,
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    BSD people hanging out there
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    and I went to MIT.
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    So there was a culture of open source software.
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    So it was sort of assumed that if you were
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    going to work on something
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    it would be an open source software project,
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    you know install Linux, you were running it,
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    it was totally cool and Microsoft sucked.
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    And so when I started moving away from doing software
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    and doing more electronics
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    um, there were sort of
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    I had this uh you know core of like
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    "oh, open source software is good,
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    and I've seen the good it does."
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    And so I was definitely inspired by that.
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    So it's not like I came up with open source hardware
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    out of nowhere.
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    It's a derivative of open source software.
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    And uh what I would do
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    when I was learning electronics
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    is that I would release stuff
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    like these are some earlier projects that I did
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    some development boards and stuff
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    when I was in school
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    and I would release you know
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    they would have software and firmware
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    and I would release the software and firmware
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    under like GPL or MIT or BSD license or anything
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    or whatever the popular license of the time was.
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    But I would put the files up
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    and I would say just ah you know
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    "these are the Eagle CAD files
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    and the Grouper files
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    and I guess do what you want with them."
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    But like the idea that you could even license them
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    actually I had no idea
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    I didn't know about like mass works
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    or what was copyright or schematic copyright
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    or is it patented or what?
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    So I just put it up and I said
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    "you know, whatever, you can enjoy it yourself."
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    So for example
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    and I'm going to go through specific examples of projects
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    and why I open sourced them
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    or why I published them.
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Open hardware summit - Limor "Ladyada" Fried keynote
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