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I have been quiet lately, but it is for some good reason.

I am turning my medical device company ( eyenetra.com ) into an open-source project.

As some of you may know, I spent the past 15 years trying to increase access to eyeglasses by developing and shipping a new class of vision-testing devices. Even though we shipped thousands of units and served millions of patients, Nostr made me realize what I was missing all along: true decentralization.

All of our hardware designs and software will be made available to the FOSS community to build their own vision-testing devices and services. And I am going to be working with design/manufacturing partners across the globe to bring them to the market in as many variations as we can.

It has been a long process but I finally have all approvals to make it happen. Thanks to all my shareholders who believed in this idea and allowed me to make it happen.

The future is bright.
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Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

This is very laudable! You can still provide your own branding and set quality standards while allowing or even encouraging "cheap knockoffs" to sell "your" design.

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SMS 2y ago

Say no to dirty knockoffs.

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

We will see if it works... In one hand, it can free the tech from our own scaling limitations, in another hand, partners can easily destroy each other by racing to the bottom. We will see.

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Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

I'm thinking of Raspberry as the prime example of successful open hardware. Everybody is stoked to learn the next release's specifications but dozens of companies build cheap replicas. Many still buy the more expensive brand while other brands establish as more or less reliable. A fascinating market.