Open Source... Sewing?
from the stitch-it-up dept
Apparently this is the month for the fashion industry to teach some lessons to other industries that you don't need to focus on protecting your intellectual property when, instead, you can use it to promote products to sell. First there was the research showing how a lack of intellectual property protection on fashion designs helped grow the industry by making it faster to change and faster to innovate. Now, Portia writes in with an example of a company that sells high-end sewing patterns that has decided to adopt an "open source" attitude. Basically, the company has recognized that obscurity or disinterest is a much bigger risk its business than "piracy." So, with that in mind, it's removed the copyright on its designs, asked people to feel free to improve on them -- and even encourages people to make money selling the improved designs. The only thing the company asks for is attribution of where the design originated from. What gave Hubert Burda, the chairman of the company, the idea? "He said we should not make the same mistakes as record companies did with copy restrictions."
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Huge difference between the two
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innovation in fashion?
the last technological advance in fashion that i can think of was levi strauss during the gold rush in 1849.
pants technology pretty much peaked then and hasn't progressed much since then.
the fashion industry is good at invalidating last years "innovations" and replacing them with this years "model"... but it's not like shirts and pants are able to do things that they weren't able to do 10 years ago.
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How is music different from fashion?
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Re: How is music different from fashion?
Yes, and that can be said of almost ANYTHING.
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Symmetry
As described in the links below, girls in Islamic countries are sent to fattening camps where they are force-fed 4 liters of milk and couscous for breakfast, made to swallow their own vomit, given vigorous stomach massages to stretch their stomachs bigger, and the skin on their arms and thighs break from gaining too much weight.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/395
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/africa/3429903.stm
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Idiots
Innovation. As in the reason why we wear shirts and pants now instead of leggings, powdered wigs, and tight jackets. And why women no longer wear hoop skirts and corsets. Idiot.
Of course Elvis was an innovator. Rap music was an innovation. Reggaeton is an innovation. What does innovation have to do with a product being "inherently worthless"? Since when is the definition of innovation inextricably linked to value?
Duh.
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My cows like Motown, my plants like Mozart.
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What you find of no value others find as value. If you feel music is just so many sounds, then vision is just so many images and life just a waste of time.
Perhaps you should end yours and spare us your idiot comments?
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Western cultures claim to value freedom, but expect conformist worship of their naked men and noises.
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this is stupid
That and dorpus is an idiot
But I think you missed the point of the article. People don't make their own clothes anymore so patterns are mostly worthless. This is an attempt to bring the hobbyist too their company by giving them more freedom. But in the end they are making buggy whips.
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If It Were Really Open Source, Then I Digress...
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Uncomfortable Clothing?
Body piercings and tattoos have been around for centuries. Too-tight jeans that harm the sperm count? What about corsets that caused women to faint and pass an inordinate amount of gas? What does comfort have to do with the value of clothing? You contest the value of clothing and music. What is the value of food? What is the value of toilets? What is the value of brushing your teeth?
Your comment about the irrationality of the human mind is an excellent example of the irrationality of the human mind. Congratulations.
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So, why hurt yourself for no reason? Because humans are irrational.
What is the value of food?What is the value of toilets? What is the value of brushing your teeth?
How do people live without them? Uncomfortable clothes serve no purpose other than to look stupid.
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Feeding the Trolls
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DORPUS
"Only the irrationality of the human mind perceives any value in it." and the only mind that perceives any value in YOU would apparently be, well-- YOU, cause the rest of us wish you would just shut the hell up.
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