[sdiy] what is DIY?

[Jay Vaughan]

At 6:06 -0700 18/1/05, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>"Paul Maddox" <P.Maddox at signal.QinetiQ.com> wrote:
>  >Tony,
>  >> I think we ought to have an award for the best DIY award :-)
>  >nah, an award for the most comprehensive set of criteria for what is DIY :-)
>  >Seriously though folks, you guys know if your own project is DIY or not.
>  >I've not submitted the PolyDAC nor Monowave because whilst I made them, they
>  >became commercial products (neither started as such) and I don't think its
>  >fair to put these up as DIY.
>Why?
>You DIY a project.  It's DIY.
>You make people aware of it.  It's still DIY.
>Someone sends you money for a pile of parts and a board.
>How is it now (the same THINGS as before made by the same person) not DIY?
>"Amatuer" is a word that was not used in the definition.


you could say 'hand-made by the person selling it to you', but DIY 
has a much nicer ring to it.

is DIY an ethos?  does one need wopping big smoke-stacks to 
mass-produce for grand consumption?  all i know is, if i could build 
a wopping big stack, all for my own, i would do so.  immediately.

maybe thats DIY?

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Jay Vaughan