“Sharism at Work” is a Hong Kong based startup company building copyleft consumer electronics.
Our first product is the Ben NanoNote, a small, fully open handheld. Check projects.qi-hardware.com for our complete software sources and all hardware documentation as well as schematics.

“There was a time when hardware makers thought of software as a free give-away. Then came a time when they accepted that software was a world of its own, but their understanding of it often stopped at admiring software profits.
In the future I believe there will be a time when software companies will commission exactly the hardware they need, down to the last transistor.
Our startup is an attempt at building a company that can offer this kind of service to the free software world, while paying full respect to free software culture.
Welcome to our company!”
Wolfgang Spraul, Product Development

(*) sharism: coined by Chinese entrepreneur Isaac Mao, is the idea of sharing information freely without fear of loss, creating a stream of collective action that is more powerful than any individual could ever be.

(*) copyleft: is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.
(source: Wikipedia en)

Interested in custom hardware design and manufacturing or software consulting? Like the idea and want to get involved?

Contact us: contact@sharism.cc