Free Technology Guide

Background

The following conditions are a checklist, which should help to find possibilities for monopolizing technologies. I tried to translate the checklist form German into English, as best I coud do it. Better translations are welcome.

Legal Conditions for free technologies

• The technology is published.
• There are no laws, which permit to monopolize following things:
  • the property of the technology
  • the use of the technology
  • spare parts and accessories
  • raw material
  • further development
  • spreading of the technology
  • publication of the technology
  • study of the technology
  • recycling and recycling technologies for worn out parts
  • trade with the machines
  • trade with the products
  • specialists who understand the technology
  • professionalism
  • norms and uniform rules
  • interfaces to other technologies
• The operator of the technology has to be independent, that he can ignore demands and applications for a restrictive injunction.

Physical Conditions for free technologies

• The operator can maintain the machines.
• The raw materials which are neccessary for maintaining the machines, are available at home of the operator.
• Spare parts and accessories can be produced at home of the operator.
• The technology can be understood by the specialists at home of the operator.
• The technical dokumentation is published under the Creative Commons Licence
• The feasibility study is published under the Creative Commons Licence
• The dokumentations of scientific experiments, which are neccessary for understanding the technology and for working out of norms and uniform rules, are published under the Creative Commons Licence
• All documents must be written in the native language of the operator.
• The recycling infrastructure is available at home of the operator.
• The technology creates livelihoods.
• Even the prototype of the technology creates livelihoods.
• The technology has constructive features, which creates non-exclusion.
• The technology has constructive features, which creates non-rivalry.
• The technology does not cause eternal costs.
• The spin-off products must not accumulate as refuse.
• The technology can be copied easily at home of the operator.
• The technology can be integrated in the cycle of materials and in the cycle of energy at home of the operator.
• The technology can be integrated by the social network at home of the operator.
• The technology has constructive features, that it can be produced in small companies.
• The tools for producing the machines are available easily.