"Cautionary Tales From The History Of Secrecy" - Michael Ossmann (KiCon 2019)
Channel: Contextual Electronics
Date: 2019-05-03

Gather round the campfire, children, and listen to spooky stories from the days of proprietary technology.  Folks back then hoarded inventions instead of sharing them.  They believed that the value of ideas could be increased by keeping them secret or by forcibly preventing competitors
from using or improving upon them.  Against great odds humans survived this dark era.  Today we share their stories so that we may be saved from repeating their failures.

Talk slides available here: http://kicad-kicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Michael-Ossmann-ossmann-kicon-2019-slides.pdf

About the speaker:

Michael Ossmann is an engineer and founder of Great Scott Gadgets. They make the RF spectrum more hackable with tools like the Ubertooth One, the Yardstick One and the HackRF. All GSG designs are open source hardware and made with KiCad.

KiCon 2019 was a conference for people who use and love KiCad. For more information: https://kicad-kicon.com

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