| Hi James, I agree with the substance of your analysis on OpenDesk. I don't accept its extension to the WikiHouse project. On OpenDesk, our aim has been to let people cut and customise the designs themselves. We weren't aware (before this thread) of a contradiction between NC and open source. We'll have to address this in our narrative. On WikiHouse however, the project truly is and aims to be open source. All designs are released public domain. The goal of the project is to create a collaboratively developed open commons resource. On both projects, I don't doubt that the design files we release aren't componentised enough and aren't in enough formats. However, we've carefully mastered the OpenDesk designs so they can be both cut from and re-modelled, and you can already see many structural components, as well as whole designs, in the WikiHouse library[1]. That there aren't more (and perhaps that designs aren't modelled more intelligently) is a reflection of our capacity, not our intention to restrict use. See the WikiHouse constitution[2] and development goals[3] for more. Plus see an example OpenDesk download here[4]. James. [1]: http://www.wikihouse.cc/library
[2]: http://www.wikihouse.cc/static/doc/968a0b62b832d8a2661616e36...
[3]: http://www.wikihouse.cc/static/doc/c977861f2bd29b1a53532f4f1...
[4]: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/opendesk-assets/gfx/desig... |