[ Thanks to Stian
Rødven Eide for this link. ]
“David Reyes Samblas Martinez is the founder of Spanish
Copyleft Hardware store Tuxbrain, and attended the famous Open
University of Catalunya. He’s also the subject of this month’s
Fellowship interview, in which he answers questions on hardware
manufacturing, e-learning and Free Software politics.“Stian Rødven Eide: For well over a year, your main
activity has been Tuxbrain, a shop dedicated to open, hackable
devices, and, in particular, Copyleft hardware. Initially inspired
by the community success of Openmoko, your selection has since
grown to include several other products as well. Could you tell us
a bit about how you came to start Tuxbrain, and how the first year
has been?“David Reyes Samblas Martinez: My business partner Victor
Remolina and I discovered the FOSS world about 7-8 years ago. Since
then, we have always been thinking about doing something together
around Free Software. When the name Tuxbrain first was mentioned
about 5 years ago, we immediately decided that whatever we do has
to carry that name. We soon created a manifesto outlining the
philosophy of Tuxbrain. The main aspects of it were that the
company should be integrated inside the FOSS community, be part of
it, and dedicate part of its time and resources to help initiatives
that we found interesting grow. We felt that this would help us
grow as well.”