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15 F “for a detailed treatment of the “for worse,” see Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David Levine
[ 23 ] . Even the idea of patents has been being challenged by ever increasingly formidable mountain of evidence and
Boldrin and Levine offer a good introduction to the literature.
16 No one would argue that most academic scientists and engineers are destitute, but there is normally more money,
but less freedom on the corporate side of the fence.
17 E verywhere Tech htp://everywheretech.org/ .
18 OpenMaterials htp://openmaterials.org/ .
19 A ltLab htp://altlab.org/ .
20 S imputer license htp://www.simputer.org/simputer/license/ .
21 CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which employs thousands of scientists directly and hosts
many more visiting scientists every year.
22 CERN OHL htp://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wiki .
23 Open-source hardware (OSHW) htp://freedomdeined.org/OSHW .
24 S ome version of the Golden Rule can be found in almost every ethical tradition [ 39 ], but many will be most familiar
with the phrasing from Jesus (Mathew 7:12 or Luke 6:31).
25 ODS, OpenDocument Spreadsheet file format. This is used by the free and open-source Open Office ( ht-
tp://www.openoice.org/ ) and Libre Office ( htp://www.libreoice.org/ ). Whenever possible, use open formats so that
anyone can use FOSS to gain access.
26 Github htps://github.com/ . An excellent example of how to use Github for this type of work is underway by Pioneer
Valley Open Science, which promotes and hosts science hackathons, workshops, and collaborations in the Pioneer Val-
ley area of Western Massachusets in addition to posting OSH on Github at htps://github.com/Pioneer-Valley-Open-
Science/pioneer-valley-open-science.github.com/wiki .
27 T Thingiverse htp://www.thingiverse.com/ . Many research groups maintain collections on Thingiverse of laboratory
equipment.
For
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maintain
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of
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Chapter
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see
ht-
tp://www.thingiverse.com/jpearce/collections/open-source-scientiic-tools .
28 A ppropedia htp://www.appropedia.org/ . For an example of how to use Appropedia to maintain an OSH hub, see
the MOST group method page at htp://www.appropedia.org/Category:MOST_methods .
29 S ee any of the recent publications in Science, Nature or the popular press detailing the risks of climate destabilization,
species loss/extinction, drug resistant diseases, poverty, financial crisis/risk of global economic collapse, proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction, and resource scarcities (e.g. water) among many other large-scale global problems.
30 Normally, a patent through lawyers costs somewhere around $20,000.
31 I n the author's opinion, the last requirement is particularly weak as patents are built of of prior ideas and nature.
32 Readers will, for example, ind even the most poorly writen instructables substantially more useful for making an
object than a standard patent description of the vast majority of modern “inventions”.
33 A patent thicket is a pejorative term used to describe a dense web of overlapping patent rights that demands you
reach licensing deals for multiple patents from multiple sources in order to develop a technology or bring it to market.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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