FM-1 is an interesting case study. From what I understand, M-Vave saw what the community was doing with their device, and decided to go along with the flow by releasing an official SDK and a new "open" groovebox firmware, in addition to this Workbench tool.

Right now, designing and mass-producing hardware is still a bit specialized, but creating software isn't. They have decided to embrace life as a creative hardware platform.

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brudgers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What I think happened is M-Vave decided to comply with various GNU licenses on the advice of their attorneys.

The same thing with inMusic and their MPC OS.

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consumer451 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think that's what happened, but follow-up.. if one orders an "FM-1" from AliExpress, does the China-based company M-Vave make any money from the sale?

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headsman771 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I think they must. The "where to buy" button on their product pages just goes to a "contact us" page.

	▲	consumer451 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I would really like to go down this rabbit hole. There are so many sellers of FM-1 on Ali. Meanwhile, there are so many USA-based companies who get their manufacturing cloned in China... For things like FM-1, are they actually respecting intellectual property over there, internally?