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In den USA hat Bill Foster einen Gesetzesentwurf im Kongress eingebracht, der für eine flächendeckende Versorgung des Landes mit Fab Labs sorgen soll. Pro 700'000 Einwohner soll ein Fab Lab bereit gestellt werden.

Übertragen auf die Schweiz würde das heissen, dass

(Silent) movie by Thuur Caris

Creative Commons’ Thinh Nguyen invites us to comment on their new patent tools, the Research Non-Assertion Pledge and the Public Patent License. The address to discuss is the public Creative Commons wiki. These two tools are pieces of the underlying infrastructure for how to share and transform publicly available unpatented know-how and patented inventions.

Just re-reading Paul Graham of Y Combinator in San Francisco about bootstrapping a business, and fundraising, being the second hardest thing of a start-up. The hardest thing being: making something people want.

Bootstrapping a business would be consulting. And about consulting he says: "It's not as painful as raising money from investors, perhaps, but the pain is spread over a longer period."

The Dutch Stichting Fablab has published the first Fab Year Book some six weeks ago. It is available at instructables.com to be downloaded and made into a book:

http://www.instructables.com/id/FabYearBook-2010/

The virtual version is here: http://fabyearbook.org