Sun: Open source Niagara 'successful'
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| The success Sun Microsystems has seen from publishing the hardware designs of
| its Niagara processor is pushing the server and software company to continue
| its open source chip initiative, and release the source codes of its
| latest "Niagara 2" processor.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,62030524,00.htm
Open Source Excellence at UC Santa Cruz
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| Sun Microsystems has named the University of California, Santa Cruz as its
| first OpenSPARC Center of Excellence, establishing a collaborative
| partnership between the company and university faculty who work with the
| OpenSPARC community on the processor code first released as open source by
| Sun in 2006.
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http://campustechnology.com/articles/49563/
Windows logon-scripting tool going open source
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| The company has yet to decide whether it will license Script Start under the
| GPLv2 or GPLv3 open source license...
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http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E180025733000017372
Related:
GPL3 to dominate LinuxWorld
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| Bui-Friday believes that many companies will move to the new licence but only
| at a timely juncture. “It’s very rare that a software project will go through
| the trouble and expense of cutting a new version just for a new licence.
| Typically, what we’ve heard is that the next version they cut they will go
| [with GPL3],” she said.
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http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2195689/gpl3-dominate-linuxworld
Signal and Noise in GPLv3
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| In an email to me last month, Linus Torvalds, who has been portrayed in the
| media as GPLv3's main opponent, describes the language that he and other use
| on the Linux kernel mailing list as "blunt, to the point, and not very
| polite." When journalists quote pieces of it, he notes, often "the context of
| that language is then lost entirely" -- and he adds that "it's not just the
| text of the thread itself that is the context; the context is also how
| technical people discussing things amongst each other is in itself a very
| different context than a trade magazine article."
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3692201
Misleading InformationWeek GPLv3 article
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| Linus's position is clear. He's repeatedly said that he'd use GPLv3 in
| certain situations if there was a practical advantage, but he prefers v2 over
| v3. That's fine. I prefer v3, but v2 is still a great licence.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/misleading_informationweek_gplv3_article
Why does Microsoft seem scared of GPLv3?
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| Microsoft is extremely keen to avoid "legal debate" over whether its recent
| partnerships with Linux firms such as Novell, Xandros, and Linspire, mean
| Redmond must assume any of the new licenses' legal obligations.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Why-does-Microsoft-seem-scared-of-GPLv3-/0,130061733,339279673,00.htm
Microsoft disses GPLv3 (and rocketman Kirk)
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| This is Thursday's IT Blogwatch: in which Microsoft squirms out of GPLv3's
| clutches, perhaps.
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5823
The Badger Game
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| So, by threatening everything and promising nothing (because would Microsoft
| really sue anyone for patents, knowing how many competitors in the Linux
| community have patents of their own?), Microsoft has skillfully managed to
| get open source players to endorse Open XML. A variant of the classic Badger
| Game if I ever heard one.
|
| Faced with cons like this, I am beginning to realize that having something
| like the GPLv3 around is a very good idea. Even though the new GPL could not
| have prevented this scam, it may help in the future.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007071302826OPMSPB
The importance of open source in hardware
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| Having a solid base on which to build will also help new innovations come to
| market, since those makers will only have to concentrate on what’s new. It
| will also enable new competitors to exist, since they won’t have to hold all
| the IP of their new designs.
|
| The open source hardware movement, in other words, has barely begun.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1294
Do we need an open hardware license?
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| Still, Hicks says that it's possible to use open source hardware designs with
| field-programmable gate arrays, "which are quite affordable," and points to
| OpenSPARC and the OPENCORES community of open hardware designers as examples
| of real-world usage of open hardware.
|
| Phipps says that he sees open hardware following in the footsteps of FOSS,
| though he says mainstreaming of open hardware "will take much longer ... to
| get a foothold."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118198
[Site launch] Welcome to UbuntuHCL.org!
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| Our mission is to provide a forum for Ubuntu users to share their experiences
| with different hardware, to help ease both the transition of new users to
| Ubuntu, as well as help users pick the right hardware for their Linux system.
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http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/pub/
Bug Labs DIY gadgets to turn consumer electronics on its ear?
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| Last night we sat down for dinner with a company that, with the use of open
| source hardware, intends to invert the top down consumer electronics market
| as we know it -- a lofty goal, no doubt.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/bug-labs-diy-gadgets-turn-consumer-electronics-on-its-ear/
Zigbee motes boast open hardware, software
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| A university spin-off company in Spain is readying an inexpensive
| Zigbee-based "mote" sensor built entirely with open-source hardware
| and software.
|
| [...]
|
| Additionally, Libelius is currently shipping a Debian Linux-based
| "MeshLium" access point (pictured at right) claimed capable of
| bridging Zigbee and WiFi networks.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4953888945.html
Open source hardware, what is it? - A start...
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| Open source hardware is a term we've used here on MAKE & CRAFT for
| describing some of the projects featured as well as some of our
| electronics kits and it was the subject of a talk we participated
| in at then SXSW conference, but what is it?
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http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/04/open_source_hardware_what.html
SXSW sets stage for open-source DIY hacking
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| "We're working on open-source hardware," Fried explained to the packed
| room, "and how we can take the paradigm of open-source software and make
| things out of it."
|
| [...]
|
| "What these projects have in common is that people are sharing the
| recipes," Torrone said, "and it's starting to fall under (a) category,
| which is open-source hardware."
|
| Fried said the concept involved several levels of technology, the
| foundation being basic mechanics. She said that kind of information
| can be publicly released under a Creative Commons license, and she
| hoped more people would begin using open-source computer-aided
| design to create such projects.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6166234.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/398jc5
Open Source Soft Microprocessors
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| Open Source licensing of soft microprocessors provides
| designers the flexibility to change FPGA architectures and
| the visibility into the processor architecture that they need.
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http://www.ddj.com/dept/opensource/197800817
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| Sun Microsystems plans to release on Tuesday the underlying design of
| its UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" processor under the terms of the General
| Public License.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6051800.html
Sun's Niagara chip breaks like the Wind River
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| Wind River this week lent a helping hand to one of Sun Microsystems'
| more interesting processor efforts. The software maker announced that
| its telco hardened version of Linux will be tuned for Sun's UltraSPARC
| T1 processor.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/sun_windriver/
Perens set to tackle open-source hardware
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| On Monday, Perens plans to announce the TAPR Open Hardware
| License, a document written by John Ackerman designed
| specifically to govern hardware designs that can be
| modified and redistrubuted. Perens plans to submit the
| license to the Open Source Initiative for its as an
| open-source license.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6156093.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/2noydh
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