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The open source hardware culture
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| Open source hardware, aka open hardware, is
| an extension of the open source culture.
| Hardware that is designed for free, in the
| same way as open source software, is known
| as open source hardware or open hardware.
| The research and development information,
| like schematics, bill of materials (BOM)
| and PCB layout of an open source hardware
| design is open to all.
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http://www.shanzai.com/index.php/market-mayhem/8-op-ed/981-the-open-source-hardware-culture
Universities, Congress push Open Access Research law
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| For the last several years, the US'
| National Institutes of Health has
| implemented a Congressionally mandated open
| access policy. Within a year of the
| publication of any work that's derived from
| NIH funding, the papers have to be sent to
| the NIH in digital form so that they can be
| made available online for anyone to
| examine. Although there have been sporadic
| attempts to reverse the policy, it has been
| considered so successful that the US Office
| of Science and Technology Policy requested
| public input on an extension of the rules
| to all federally funded research. Now, a
| consortium of US research institutions is
| putting its weight behind an effort to turn
| the potential OSTP policy into law.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/universities-congress-push-open-access-research-law.ars
Recent:
Two Million Free Texts Now Available
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| The Internet Archive is pleased to
| announce an important manuscript,
| Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first
| Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free
| digital text. Internet Archive has been
| scanning books and making them available
| for researchers, historians, scholars,
| people with disabilities, and the general
| public for free on archive.org since 2005.
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http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=300273
OpenStreetMap to reach 250,000 contributors today
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| The OpenStreetMap (OSM) Project has
| announced that it will reach more than
| 250,000 registered users today.
| OpenStreetMap is an open source project
| that is building free online maps, not
| based on any copyright or licensed map
| data. It was founded by Steve Coast in
| August of 2004 and is run by the
| OpenStreetMap Foundation.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-to-reach-250-000-contributors-today-980410.html
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