THE MAKER'S MANIFESTO

Confidence level: *

Status: proposed

Tags: goals

Super-patterns

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Problem statement

Since we are making TOOLS FOR HUMANS, we need to make it easy for people to adapt those tools to their particular needs. Outside the software community, there is prior art in defining what adaptability and respect for people mean within useful objects.

Elaboration

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Therefore:

Keep in mind the Maker's Bill of Rights when writing software, as if it were a physical object you are making.

Sub-patterns

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See http://makezine.com/04/ownyourown/ for details about this.