I truly believe open source hardware is here to stay. It has established itself as a great community, a great effort, and for many, a great business. I spend most of my days working on open source hardware in some way, and I wanted to talk about some of the {unspoken} rules we all, well, many, seem to follow. Why? Because the core group of people who've been doing what we've collectively called "open source hardware" know each other — we're friends, we overlap and compete in some ways, but we all work towards a common goal: sharing our work to make the world a better place and to stand on each other's shoulders and not each other's toes : ) I'm sure there will be some folks who agree strongly with what I've outlined as "unspoken rules," others, I hope will completely disagree with many points too.
