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Arduino development on OpenSolaris
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| Part of the draw of Arduino development is
| that it is open-source and cross-platform.
| It is hard to believe that it took this
| long but OpenSolaris can be added to the
| list of operating systems that love to
| work with Arduino.
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http://hackaday.com/2009/12/13/arduino-development-on-opensolaris/
- From Hype To Hype
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2009/12/from-hype-to-hype.html
A bad workman blames his (open source) tools
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| A car mechanic, generally speaking, knows
| that Snap-on brand tools are some of the
| best in the industry and that it takes a
| proper monkey not to be able to use one of
| the companyâs wrenches properly.
|
| The problem with open source software
| application development (if there is one)
| you might argue is that there are so many
| comparatively âungradedâ tools out there
| that you can find yourself using a product
| that is not necessarily best suited to the
| job in hand.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014617o-2000458459b,00.htm
Related:
Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?
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| That's because the Arduino board is a piece of open source hardware, free for
| anyone to use, modify, or sell. Banzi and his team have spent precious
| billable hours making the thing, and they sell it themselves for a small
| profit â while allowing anyone else to do the same. They're not alone in this
| experiment. In a loosely coordinated movement, dozens of hardware inventors
| around the world have begun to freely publish their specs. There are open
| source synthesizers, MP3 players, guitar amplifiers, and even high-end
| voice-over-IP phone routers. You can buy an open source mobile phone to talk
| on, and a chip company called VIA has just released an open source laptop:
| Anyone can take its design, fabricate it, and start selling the notebooks.
|
| [...]
|
| Then again, Linux sounded pretty insane, too, back in 1991, when Linus
| Torvalds announced it. Nobody believed a bunch of part-time volunteers could
| create something as complex as an operating system, or that it would be more
| stable than Windows. Nobody believed Fortune 500 companies would trust
| software that couldn't be "owned." Yet 17 years later, the open source
| software movement has been crucial to the Cambrian explosion of the Web
| economy. Linux enabled Google to build dirt-cheap servers; Java and Perl and
| Ruby have become the lingua franca for building Web 2.0 applications; and the
| free Web-server software Apache powers nearly half of all Web sites in the
| world. Open source software gave birth to the Internet age, making everyoneâ
| even those who donated their laborâbetter off.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_openmanufacturing
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