▲ 4 ▼ System76's first in-house Laptop Virgo will have a open source Motherboard design. Licensed under GPLv3 (fosstodon.org) submitted 3 years ago* by RecursiveDescent@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml 3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) open source hardware has a lot of potential permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Especially when home manufacturing becomes more of a thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago I mean home manufacturing is cool and all, but in the short term open source hardware has the potential to create a lot more competition in traditional manufacturing. Most big tech rely on IP nowadays, without it there would be more competitors to drive prices down and increase supply. Home manufacturing is more in the far future IMO permalink fedilink source parent
[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Especially when home manufacturing becomes more of a thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago I mean home manufacturing is cool and all, but in the short term open source hardware has the potential to create a lot more competition in traditional manufacturing. Most big tech rely on IP nowadays, without it there would be more competitors to drive prices down and increase supply. Home manufacturing is more in the far future IMO permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago I mean home manufacturing is cool and all, but in the short term open source hardware has the potential to create a lot more competition in traditional manufacturing. Most big tech rely on IP nowadays, without it there would be more competitors to drive prices down and increase supply. Home manufacturing is more in the far future IMO permalink fedilink source parent