[sdiy] what is DIY?

[James Patchell]

That sounds like an excellent set of criteria...I can't think of anything 
to add.

At 03:28 PM 1/17/2005 -0500, john mahoney wrote:
>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
>

         -Jim
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