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[News] A Look at the Prospects of Free Open Source Hardware

  • Subject: [News] A Look at the Prospects of Free Open Source Hardware
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:52:11 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open Source Hardware: Birth Of A Long Tail Market?

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| And when there is unrestricted collaboration, nearly anything is possible. 
| Buglabs, the open source hardware movement and other yet-to-be discovered 
| frontiers have the same opportunity here.  
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3700366


Related:

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


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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