One can appreciate Revolution Lightboards' commitment to maintaining their open source roots well after establishing their for-profit company. This is a defining characteristic of the company as it not only helped elevate and promote their brand among academic institutions, but has also helped them integrate themselves within the Lightboard DIY market and community. Revolution Lightboards hopes their open source information, coupled with their line of DIY components and their customer service will attract institutions and private clients who are willing to take on the task of creating a lightboard, but wish to do so within a structure of support.
A grounded reality is that the information shared on their open source page is thorough. So thorough, in fact, that users could leave Revolution Lightboards and their products out of a DIY build. For many, especially those who will be faced with steep shipping charges, finding alternative locations to buy lightboard components can be a vastly more economical solution. Furthermore, the open source nature of this product has sparked affordable 3D printed alternatives for many of the for-purchase components. Many of which are commonly available on Thingiverse.