"Maker" is a trademark, a business meme, a customer movement, a manufactured lifestyle, a social branding strategy, invented and run by O'Reilly Media.

It's not evil and corrupt, like Oracle, but it's not grass roots and organic, like the Occupy movement.

http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler

http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/why-we-spun-out-maker-media...