«Those clone boards (from China) are notorious for not working correctly»
This quote from William Croft can be found in the OpenBCI forum:
https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/3628/cytondaisy-wifi-board-reset-or-update
- Discuss it with your lawyer, if William Croft’s statement does not violate the rights of Chinese sellers.
- William Croft’s statement is wrong.
- We know of user reports which say that they have issues with the OpenBCI WIFI shield bought from Chinese sellers.
- But we do not know of user reports exept from William Croft who say that OpenBCI modules bought from Chinese seller are notorious not working correctly.
- Furthermore, OpenBCI is an open source product. Can whe say that there are “original” OpenBCI modules and “clone” OpenBCI modules? No.
- But the Chinese sellers should respect the “Unspoken Rules of Open Source Hardware”:
- The documentation at https://openbci.com/ is open and can be edited by everyone. But can we trust this documentation? Who is hosting it, and who pays for the domain?
- The OpenBCI forum is not open. Sometimes theads will be locked. Who has the right to lock threads?
- And what is exactly the reason for locking the forum? Are there any rules?
- The reason forum master say is often “spamming”. But is this reason which is given often not justified?
- What is your opinion about this topic? Write it in the comments below.
- Are OpenBCI modules bought from https://openbci.com/ better than OpenBCI modules bought somewhere else?
- And what is you opinion about William Croft’s statements?