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Group interview: a graphic view of the open hardware movement. Part 2:
technical and social issues
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| And, just as it took the pioneering work of the GNU project to change the
| world into one in which free software innovation is easy and natural, it will
| take bold initiatives to pioneer open hardware. In the meantime, like the
| early GNU project which ran on proprietary Unix operating systems (that being
| the only ones available), we cope as best we can.
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| In this second part of the interview, I spoke to project founder Timothy
| Miller (TM), open hardware board members Lourens Veen (LV) and Attila Kinali
| (AK), as well as Timothy’s Traversal Technology partner Andy Fong (AF) and
| physicist Dr. Petter Urkedal (PU) who designed a “nanocontroller” for the
| Open Graphics architecture.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/group_interview_graphic_view_open_hardware_movement_part_2_technical_and_social_issues
NVIDIA is probably going open source pretty soon. They have a big announcement
coming.
Recent:
Open Graphics Project to Announce Pre-Orders
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| Open Graphics Project founder Timothy Miller recently noted on the project's
| mailing list that they are set to announce that their first hardware, the
| OGD1, is ready for pre-order.
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| [...]
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| He then explained that though the OGD1 could function as a graphics card, it
| is instead offered as a competitively priced FPGA development kit, "we need
| to make it clear what OGD1 is and why buying one is an important step for
| Free Software..."
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http://kerneltrap.org/Hardware/Open_Graphics_Project_to_Announce_Pre-Orders
The Open Graphics Development Board
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| Additional details are available on the Traversal Technology Product Page.
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http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=OGD1
Related:
First Open Graphics board appears
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| This project is on the basis that a GPU should not end up with
| tons of propriatary software or hardware, containing hidden
| problems that aren't mentioned to the press, and yet cause
| nervous breakdowns for developers worldwide.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36761
Interview: Timothy Miller, Open Graphics Project
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| The OGP grew rapidly after I first started it, and it's continued to
| grow gradually since then. Now, we have Traversal Technology and also
| the Open Hardware Foundation that's dedicated to the non-profit,
| community, and democratic aspects of the project. Our mailing list has
| over 500 members, including well-known Linux kernel hackers, 3D graphics
| experts, college professors, representatives of many other open
| source projects, hardware designers, and people who want to become
| hardware designers.
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http://linuxgazette.net/130/ruecker.html
Open source hardware comes out of closet
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| EVER SINCE open-source software created a buzz, people have stroked chins,
| pondered and pontificated about the possibility of open-source hardware – and
| now it’s becoming a reality.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/02/open-source-hardware-coming
The Future of Hardware is Open Source
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| Open Hardware is the future of technology, and all we need to kick off this
| next great revolution in technology is to have the right tools in the right
| place at the right time. After that, the sky’s the limit!
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=315
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
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