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By Ron McElfresh
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Free Mac, iPhone, iPod do-it-yourself repair manuals

For the Mac do-it-yourselfer, the web site iFixit is a great resource:

We now have manuals for 91 Mac models, 34 iPods, and a couple of iPhones. Together, our media servers currently host 154,556 images (including revision history and thumbnails) and over 1,000 step-by-step guides.

And now a bombshell for do-it-yourself repair folks from iFixit:

Today, we are giving all that content to the world. Effective immediately, we are licensing all iFixit repair manuals under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. To my knowledge, this is the largest free release of repair documentation ever. We are committing to make our repair manuals available to everyone in the world, forever, for free.

That’s a strange business model, but thanks.

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