RepRap (replicating Rapid-prototyper) is a 3D printer and it is impeccably free and open source under both the GPL and the Creative Commons Licence. It's early days but the implications and the promise are potentially enormous in their own right - but the fact that it is resolutely not proprietary is what caught my attention.

Programs and services are different kinds of entities. A program is a work that you can execute; a service is an activity that you might interact with. For programs, we make a distinction between free and nonfree (proprietary). More precisely, this distinction applies to a program that you have a copy of: either you have the four freedoms for your copy or you don't.

This is an amazing device: The RepRap (short for "Replicating Rapid-prototyper"), an open-source printer developed at the University of Bath. It was built using Linux, and all of the project's software and hardware components fall under the GNU General Public License. It's cheap to use, and can even replicate most of its own parts. Most of this article is an interview with the technical lead, plus there are links on the first page to videos and sample parts and objects made with the RepRap.

"... Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine [...] to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend... " -- via http://www.schrankmonster.de/PermaLink,guid,acde8f0f-78ff-4308-8da5-cbfd...
* RepRap Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap

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