[sdiy] what is DIY?

[anthony]

Sounds good to me. Part of the reason I D-I-Y is because I simply cannot B-U-Y. (But I'd still DIY if I had money.)

  Struggling with the criteria for what is and what is not DIY, I've come up with an answer:

  A devices qualifies for DIY status if the designer freely provides all the information needed for others to build their own copies of it. Note the word "freely," as in "for free."

  A product does not qualify (by my standard) if you have to buy a PC board to get the schematics, for example.

  On the other hand, selling PCBs or kits or complete products is fine so long as the schemo is available for free.

  How's that?
  --
  john
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