legally

Therein lies the other issue, unless the creator has millions of dollars to fund lawsuits, if a large company or Chinese company decides to clone it he can do nothing. The only people who will respect the license are individuals and small businesses.

Also means that a robust community of people creating businesses to sell variations of the hardware for those who aren’t as maker friendly cannot emerge, correct?

Correct, that’s just one of the problems with NC licenses.

Despite the clickbait headline this isn’t open source

Open Printer will use the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license

The NC license isn’t open source, it violates point six of the OSD

At this point I’m convinced he’s deliberately doing everything he can to make himself unpopular.

They only partially nationalised rail, the rolling stock leasing companies (the most profitable part) are still private.

People are already just pointing their phone camera at their monitor.

Rosemary Duckett, 80, a retired magistrate

How did a magistrate not know planning law?

“So what would a more positive agenda look like? […] Sounding more like Tony Blair”

We’re doomed

Helium was interesting, but they locked it down so you can only use their proprietary hardware for access points, it seems kinda scammy.

IPFS is used by several archive projects like Anna’s archive and libgen.

Meshtastic is a distributed local mesh network for text messaging.

This is only going to get easier. The djinn is out of the bottle.