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Paralyzed Artist Relies on Open Source Device for Drawing
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| Even though Los Angeles-based graffiti
| artist Tony Quan's body has been ravaged
| by Lou Gehrig's disease, his mind is as
| sharp as ever. Unable to move anything but
| his eyes, he nearly had to give up his
| love of creating art until a group of
| hackers stepped in with an alternative.
| They designed Quan an open source eye
| tracking device that allows him to
| continue creating his artwork using
| nothing but the muscles in his eyes.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/paralyzed-artist-relies-on-open-source-device-for-drawing
Why Toyota Should Go Open Source
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| The software development equivalent of
| kaizen, of course, is open-source
| software. As the chief executive of Red
| Hat, the world's leading provider of open-
| source technology solutions, you can color
| me biased, but open source represents the
| most significant change and most
| disruptive force in software development
| in 20 years. In the open-source software
| model, the human-readable source code is
| distributed along with the computer-
| readable machine code. Users are
| encouraged to understand the code, find
| flaws, suggest fixes, and add
| functionality. As with kaizen
| manufacturing principles, open source
| encourages participation and continuous
| improvement. It can shrink defects to a
| negligible number. Since 2006, the
| Coverity Scan Open Source Report has
| analyzed more than 60 million unique lines
| of code from more than 280 popular open-
| source projects, including Firefox, Linux,
| and PHP. In 2009, states the report, open
| source code had roughly one defect per
| 4,000 lines of code, a marked contrast
| with the stats for proprietary code.
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2010/id20100329_064567.htm
Recent:
A Modest Proposal for Toyota: Release the Code!
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| Things look bad for Toyota. There was yet
| another unintended acceleration incident
| involving a Toyota yesterday. A Prius in New
| York on its way to the dealership to have its
| gas-pedal checked out crashed into a stone
| wall.
|
| Toyota has always maintained that its
| unintended acceleration problems are
| mechanical in nature. If it wasnât a bunched-
| up floor mat itâs a sticky gas pedal.
| Customers and regulators have their own
| theories however. They suspect the electronic
| throttle control, or ECT.
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http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10004051/a-modest-proposal-for-toyota/
The Toyota Recall and the Case for Open, Auditable Source Code
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| Finally, in response to the controversy,
| Sequoia Voting Systems announced last October
| that their new voting machines would be based
| on publicly available source code and open
| architectures, noting that â[s]ecurity through
| obfuscation and secrecy is not securityâ and
| that â[f]ully disclosed source code is the
| path to true transparency and confidence in
| the voting process for all involved.â
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2010/feb/19/toyota-recall-and-case-open-auditable-source-code/
Related:
Ubuntu at Toyota
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| I wiggle the mouse, and up pops the Ubuntu Heron! Wow!
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http://www.zen.org/2008/08/18/ubuntu-at-toyota/
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