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On 09/04/2015 10:18 AM, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I'm not aware of one. Not even Arduino. The Arduino folks put tremendous
> efforts into coming along with an easy to use package, but wherever you
> look, people buy cheap clones.
>
> It simply can't work at a reasonably large scale.

No, the business model I was talking about is small scale, zero or few employees,
contractors mostly, niche market, for engineers that do accounting and bookkeeping also.
Success stories are Eggbot -- shop.evilmadscientist.com,  model rocketry by Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard. http://altusmetrum.org 
to name two.

These are on a comfortable scale for individuals.  Nothing wealthy investors would consider.
Do YOU want a big scale company?  IPO style?  Is your definition of large equal to my comfortable-small definition?
I can't tell from what you say.  You've not convinced me open hardware is impossible though.