I've recently come across a new website (via adafruit blog) that has devoted itself to 'open hardware' and has the very ambitious intention to become a centralized platform for it. Now I keep wondering how that might happen. We already have 'instructables' (not quite open, requires registration to download files), github, gitorious, sourceforge ...
Will the newcomer stand a chance against them at all?
might not become the largest but why not ?
Adafruit has tons of good stuff on their site...
I wasn't talking about adafruit. I was referring to the site linked in that blog post 
Or is this a double-misunderstanding ?
I didn't want to post a direct link, so I can't be accused of trying to push this website (not mine).
my mistake, I missed the word via ... sorry, 
My first line still stands ... why not?
the second is still true but irrelevant wrt your question
Yes I agree. Too bad there's nothing like that on this side of the pond. Just some resellers if we're lucky.
madworm:
Yes I agree. Too bad there's nothing like that on this side of the pond. Just some resellers if we're lucky.
As far as whether they "stand a chance"? Maybe...
Don't you remember when Google was the small search engine on the block (back when Yahoo, Hotbot, and Altavista dominated things)...
Heh - for all I know you were 5 years old at the time...
I just signed up with them, it can't do any harm and may help them reach some form of critical mass.
Rob
@crOsh:
When I was born, black and white TV sets were still quite common
And what about 'gopher'... you missed that one.
Was excite some sort of search engine? Yeah, gopher starts from level -1 since that is where most gophers stay 