{"id":39488,"date":"2015-11-28T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/clone-spotting-how-counterfeits-hurt-the-open\/"},"modified":"2015-11-28T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:00:07","slug":"clone-spotting-how-counterfeits-hurt-the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/clone-spotting-how-counterfeits-hurt-the-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Clone Spotting: How Counterfeits Hurt the Open Source Movement | Make:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/makezine.com\/2015\/11\/25\/clone-spotting\/'>Clone Spotting: How Counterfeits Hurt the Open Source Movement | Make:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>\u201cA few months ago a super-user friend of ours, \u201cGrumpy Mike,\u201d spotted what he thought might be a clone on the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.arduino.cc\/\">Arduino.cc forum<\/a>.<br \/>\n He was right. He had been helping a user with their project, but the<br \/>\nboard wasn\u2019t responding as it should. After a quick diagnosis and some<br \/>\nphotos from the user we realised that this was a cloned board. We were<br \/>\nboth flattered and frustrated. Flattered because someone thought that we<br \/>\n were worth copying and frustrated because they had created a<br \/>\ncounterfeit product. The \u201cTouch Board\u201d that we found looked like our<br \/>\nproduct, used our trademarked logo, and most importantly claimed to have<br \/>\n been manufactured by us \u2014 presenting a serious problem. This<br \/>\nmanufacturer hadn\u2019t just used our work without giving credit, they were<br \/>\ntrying to convince our community that this was our product.<\/p>\n<p>The Touch Board is an Open Hardware<br \/>\nproject. Open Hardware presents all of us with an amazing opportunity to<br \/>\n freely iterate and prototype, but it requires us to give credit where<br \/>\nit is due. You should improve on our design and adapt it to your needs.<br \/>\nWe provide <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/BareConductive\/touch-board-ks-edition\">the files<\/a> that you need to get PCBs made and all of our code is on <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/BareConductive\">our GitHub<\/a>.<br \/>\n We\u2019ve done a lot of hard work and you should benefit from it. We built<br \/>\nthe Touch Board on top of the hard work by Jim Lindblom, Bill Greiman,<br \/>\nBill Porter, Micheal Flagar, Arduino, Atmel, Freescale, and the support of our Kickstarter backers. Without them, the Touch Board wouldn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clone Spotting: How Counterfeits Hurt the Open Source Movement | Make: \u201cA few months ago a super-user friend of ours, \u201cGrumpy Mike,\u201d spotted what he thought might be a clone on the Arduino.cc forum. He was right. He had been helping a user with their project, but the board wasn\u2019t responding as it should. 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