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Torbjorn Ludvigsen is doing his Master Thesis on a Distributive Enterprise for the 3D Printer, in collaboration with Open Source Ecology. See http://opensourceecology.org/towards-the-open-source-civilization/ - for an introduction to the concept of Distributive Enterprise - page 62 in the MIT Innovations Journal article.
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My
plan
on
that
is,
I
would
like
to
start
creating
some
instructionals
on
that,
starting
with
sketcher,
which
is
a
useful
module,
but
basically,
there's
see
there's
a
lot
of
there's
a
lot
of
material
out
there
as
far
as
instructionals
go,
but
a
lot
of
them
are
can
be
streaming
like.
We
I
think
we
can
simply
refactor
them
into
really
quick,
concise
instructionals
which
will
help
everybody.
So
that's
my
aim
to
do.
Do
some
of
that
make
streamline
instructionals
there's
a
lot
that
like,
for
example,
on
the
sketcher
module?
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Well
say
the
the
video
is
like
nine
minutes.
Well,
let's
get
all
the
main
stuff
cut
out
all
the
fluff
turn
it
into
like
a
two
minute:
quick
instructional.
You
know
things
like
that,
so
that
at
every
step
we
can
learn
just
learn
more
rapidly
help
everybody
move
along.
So
so
I'm
thinking
about
it.
Mmhmm.
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An
outside
of
just
visually
I
mean
the
difficult
part
for
me
about.
Openscad
is
like,
for
example,
it
to
align,
something,
isn't
everything
pretty
much
just
kind
of
like?
Well,
it's.
If
you
have
the
coordinate,
you
can
definitely
put
things
somewhere,
but
when
you're
freaking
out
the
coordinates,
it
takes
a
little
bit
of
trial
and
error
and
that's
slower
than
having
graphical
interface
right.
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We
really
need
to
go
and
make
it
the
fastest
that
we
can,
and
if
we
have
the
complete
model,
we
can
redraw
it
in
in
a
free
cat
and
maybe
make
it
an
exercise
for
somebody
else
wants
to
join
the
team
or
something
like
that.
I
mean
there's
a
little
bit
of
a
team
forming
like
so
there's
Alec
myself,
there's
Joshua
from
forward
you
that
email.
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else
we
can,
we
can
get
the
stl,
except
it's
going
to
be
monolithic
as
opposed
to
made
of
parts,
but
we
can
get
around
that.
Well,
I
mean
we
can
get
around
it
by
hiding
and
unhiding
things.
You
have
to
export
part
by
part,
and
then
import
would
mean
that
we
import
a
bunch
of
bunch
of
layers
instead
of
one
file.
We
just
import
a
bunch
of
files
into
freecad,
so
so
each
one
of
those
files
would
be
manipulable.
Well,
I
mean
you
can
hide
it
on
how
that.
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Right,
so
that's
that's
correct.
Now,
have
you
been
able
to
track
down
any
more?
I
mean
if,
if
what
you
say
with
with
the
prusa
is
indeed
correct,
then
this
blows
all
those
discussion
out
of
the
water,
because
then
that
means
that
the
prusa
is
actually
the
most
significant
3d
printer
in
the
world
it.
What
you're
saying
is
correct.
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Yes,
so
the
argument
has
to
shift
a
little
bit.
I
mean
who,
therefore,
we
really
need
to
get
get
on
top
of
the
number.
So
okay,
say
say:
the
figures
are
already
very
large.
I
mean
we
knew
they
were
significant,
but
I
had
no
idea.
They
were
this
large,
like
I
thought
the
number
would
be
like,
maybe
a
few
thousand
and
as
far
as
working
ones.
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We
know
that
you
know
like
MakerBot,
makes
like
seven
thousand
per
month,
which
we
can
assume.
Like
maybe
work.
You
know,
let's
assume
they
work.
We
know
that
for
the
open-source
printers
a
lot
of
them
won't
work
in
a
sense
that
you
know
it's
just
someone
gets
tired
of
it.
They
put
too
much
time
into
building
it.
They
get
pissed
off
and
discouraged.
So
a
lot
of
them.
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Yeah
I
mean
a
lot
of
them
are
collecting
dust,
so
even
if
it's
like,
so
how
does
that
seventy
thousand
figure
into
that
is
it
seventy
thousand
out
of
which
60,000
are
collecting
dust?
You
know,
even
if
that
were
the
case
or
I
mean
it
could
be
like
what
I'm
suspecting
is
that
the
figure
is
like
five
to
ten
thousand
that
are
like
I
would
say.
Maybe
5,000
are
currently
operational.
I
asked
my
just
my
rough
rough
estimate.
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Think
it
one
way
to
structure
the
story
around
the
proofs
of
thing
is
that
he
designed
the
first
printed
that
was
buildable
in
in
the
weekend,
and
that
enabled
him
to
teach
very
many
people
had
to
go
them.
He
had
lots
of
pork,
chops
and
and
that's
why
they
spread
and
crucia
printer
users
there.
They
were
more
knowledgeable
than
all
the
printer
users
or
like
megabox
users,
just.
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So,
thanks
to
my
relationship
with
all
the
manufacturers,
I
can
down
have
guesstimate
how
much
they
they've
sold,
electronics
and
other
stuff
and
I
can
ask
them
if
they
know
from
the
customers
walk
to
the
design,
their
building
and
the
estimates
right
now
for
for
the
designs
or
the
designs
which
are
based
on
my
design
is
roughly
around
seven
to
eight
thousand
printers
around
the
planet.
Wow,
that's
huge!
You
don't
want
to
do
that.
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Let's
see
yeah
well,
I
mean,
if
that's
the
case,
then
then
a
prominent
there
could
be
I
mean
if
he
already
made
70
to
80
thousand
and
then
one
part
of
the
case
he's
already
shown
which
is
wow.
You
know,
which
is
great
now
if
it
and
if
not,
then
we
have
that
point
to
show
as
well,
but
we
still
have
the
point
that
ok
now
with
the
entry
of
the
another
player
that
can
be
made
in
one
day,
does
that
change
change
the
game
and
does
it
allow
for
this
economic
model
to
work
yeah.
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Think
we
have
to
write
the
story.
Is
we
will
document
the
business
model,
the
supporting
business
information
that
will
allow
more
3d
printer
producers
to
become
active
and
then
I
think
the
claim
is
that
we
will
dominate
over
the
prusa
as
well
or,
if
that's,
if
that's
the
case,
because
I
mean
ours
is
I,
mean
I,
think
we're
going
for
a
pretty
decent
high
performance
printer
in
a
sense,
if
you
can
print
with
rubber.
That
means
you
have
the
higher
performance,
extruder
yeah,
kousha,.
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This
is
from
2015
wait
a
minute,
but
what
happened
to
the
Make
Magazine
lulzbot
just
got
voted
as
the
number
one.
By
make,
let's
see
what
let's
see,
let's
go
to
the
low
spots
site,
they
just
had
a
I,
just
read
an
article
that
lolz
bot
was
voted
as
the
number
one
3d
printer
on
make.
Overall,
let's
see
hold
on.
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Maybe
if
you're
looked
at
the
different
3d
printed
designs
for
some
time,
let
me
know
that
the
most
designs
are
very
similar.
That's
almost
every
level,
so
it's
just
both
got
to
get
the
details
right
then
you
don't
have
to
peel
a
look
when
you
unbox
it
and
it
works
out
of
the
box
because
they're
really
good
at
details,
but
it's
not
like
fundamentally
better
or
have
inventions
that
other
printers
don't
have.
That's.
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Right
but
let's
see
if,
if
we
kind
of
say
that
okay
well,
the
the
registrations
are
representative
of
the
brand's,
then
if
prusa
has
say
you
know,
2000
and
replicate
ur
has
about
2,000,
and
we
know
that.
So,
if
that's
representative,
then
then
the
perusal
yeah
is
in
the
tens
of
thousands.
So
it's
it's
it's
not
seven
or
eight
thousand.
It's
will
be
seventy
to
eighty
thousand
yeah.
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Right,
okay,
so
the
numbers
are
pretty
huge,
so
pretty
much
I
think
our
thesis
statement
is
boiling
down
to
what
happens
when
we
optimize
the
design.
Further.
Do
we
see
another
well,
but
what's
so
powerful
about
that,
I
mean
for
me.
The
powerful
message
is
that
the
only
way
this
this
concept
is
extremely
powerful
is
if
the
market
share
of
this
new
model
actually
grows
larger
than
a
couple
of
the
other
ones
like
say
the
biggest
like
if
it
overnight
overnight
know
what
kind
of
times
you
are
we
expecting.
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Of
yeah
we
would
look
like,
and
we
would
actually
just
perfect
what
the
reprap
community
and
Prussia
has
already
done
and
try
to
do
again,
but
but
we
will
also,
we
just
push
out
it
at
all,
mention
how
you
make
business
out
of
this,
and
they
didn't
make
a
template
for
others
who
want
to
do
workshops.
We
didn't
do
any
of
that
stuff.
It
just
sign
a
printer
and
posted
workshops,
so
it
will
make
it
much
more
detail.
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Well,
I
think
what
we're
actually
aiming
for
is
that
which
is
twofold:
one
is
just
good
in
general,
but
the
other
part
that
I
think
is
unique.
That
I
think
we
want
to
focus
on
is
that
it's
a
way
to
support
lifestyle
developers
like
basically
lifestyle
investors
in
the
program
like
osc
I,
want
to
see
that
we
can
actually
get
people
on
board
because
they
can
support
themselves
with
this
model.
In
other
words,
it's
it's
a
way
to
fund,
so
we're
exploring
the
fund
ability
of
progressive
projects
by
building
an
open
source
hardware.
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don't
know,
I
read
a
lot
of
texts
about
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software
and
seal
of
interviews
with
Richard
Stallman,
and
it's
always
asked
to
aggressively
what
should
I
do.
Then?
How
has
your
eyes
for
my
family
get
food
on
table
and
then
is
always
forced
to
pan
through
the
panel
business
consultant
solve
your
economical
problems.
I
just
ask
you
to
be
optical
and
and.
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World
in
terms
of
people
who
are
not
pursuing
autonomy,
but
alienation
for
compensation
I
mean
even
if,
even
if,
it's
good
alienation
for
compensation,
it's
working
within
an
ethical
company,
but
it's
still
probably
for
most
of
those
people.
It's
probably
alienation
for
compensation,
so
so
worship
we're
saying
we're
transcending
this:
the
limits
to
alienation
for
conversation,
meaning
that
we
simply
get
more
people
doing
this
as
their
passion.
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Let's
continue
tomorrow,
so
I
think
we
pretty
much
got
it
got.
What
we
have
to
say.
Would
we
need
to
clean
that
up,
but
yeah?
It's
not
that
we're
going
to
take
over
the
market
with
distributed
enterprise,
because
that
apparently
we
miss
the
boat.
It
happened
already,
which
is
good
news.
I
mean
this
is
I
mean
this
is
actually
worth
celebrating,
then
I
mean
I.
Don't
think
people
appreciate
this
point,
I
think
no
one's
really.
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You
know,
maybe
old
all
the
other
guys
will
disappear
outside
of
the
distributive
Enterprise.
Then
I
mean
look
the
the
real
like
if
this
were
to
go,
go
like
we
thank
the
actual
measure
of
success
would
be
that
most
of
this
stuff
see,
but
that
wouldn't
we
wouldn't
want
that
either
that
most
of
the
stuff
becomes
our
our
printer
I.
Don't
think
we
want
that
either
we
just
want
like
a
ten
percent
or
something
we.
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Remember
yeah,
but
I
think
what
we
would
like
is
a
hundred
percent
of
liberation.
The
people
getting
freed
up
to
become
entrepreneurs
that
all
the
printers
are.
Our
metric
of
success
is
that
the
majority
market
share,
meaning
more
than
fifty
percent
is
done
by
entrepreneurs.
Individual
many
many
individual
entrepreneurs
that
we've
helped
to
bring
about
that
would
be
blowout
world
transformation,
so,
instead
of
lulzbot
having
a
hundred
employees
or
a
thousand
employees,
there's
a
hundred
many
loads
bots
that
have
ten
and
ten
ten
workers,
or
even
one
or
one
worker.
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Yeah
yeah
yeah:
it's
the
good
old
fight
of
good
versus
evil,
we'll
see:
okay,
okay,
all
right!
Well,
that
sounds
good.
So,
let's
continue
tomorrow.
We
have
all
the
other
parts
to
finish
by
think
this
was
goodness
I
think
we
got
somewhere
on
this
I
mean
this
is
good.
This
is
some
good
conclusions
we're
getting
here
and
we
def.