[sdiy] what is DIY?

[Ken Stone]

According to this -

Oakley and MOTM are out, and CGS is in. (a rather boiled down view on my part).

Of course the key work here is PRODUCT. Stuff assembled by individuals that
are not for sale and are not documented still qualify as DIY, as they are
not a PRODUCT.

Ken

>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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