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[video=youtube;CD1EWGQDUTQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD1EWGQDUTQ&feature=player_embedded[/video]

http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/

The podcast gives a good idea of the big picture of where they are headed with this:
http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us/multimedia/blogs/podcast/2008/05/open-farm-tech-with-marcin-jakubowski/

This challenges the entire centralized industrial production model and the debt slavery financial model that goes with it.
 
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So these guys are doing something like Pearl's 'buy it once' company but for homesteading tools!

Here's a working youtube link:



And a bit about the project:
https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/



It's not clear to me whether they are still ongoing though. They do seem to be funding some training apprenticeships (2025), but the machines projects seem stalled.
 
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