wired.com - 10/21/2008
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This is the unacknowledged fact underpinning the open hardware movement: Hardware is already open. Even when inventors try to keep the guts of their gadgets secret, they can't. So why not actively open those designs and try to profit from the inevitable? "Apple never open-sourced the iPod, ...
source.android.com - 10/21/2008
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Android is the first free, open source, and
fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack:...
an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to ...
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Welcome (Android Open Source Project)
source.android.com - 10/21/2008
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Today is a big day for Android, the
Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of...
the work that we've poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project. You'll be hearing a lot ...
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Android is now available as open source (Android Open ...
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Open source hardware article in this month's Wired
MAKE Magazine —
... it posts all its trade secrets for anyone to take--all the schematics, design files, and software for the Arduino board. Download them and you can manufacture an Arduino yourself; there are no patents. You can send the plans off to a Chinese factory, mass-produce the circuit boards, and sell them yourself -- pocketing the profit without paying Banzi a penny in royalties. He won't sue you. Actually, he's sort of hoping you'll do it.
Read the article on Wired: "Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?"
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King Arduino from Ivrea
Core77 —
... Design Institute Ivrea (archival site) gathered on Friday nights.
It finally became the name that my former Ivrea colleague Massimo Banzi (in the center above) chose for the Italian firm that makes a highly acclaimed open-source electronics prototyping platform.
Bruce Sterling invited him earlier this year for a presentation at Torino's Share Festival, as an example of how the digital is integrated into the real.
Now Arduino is featured in Wired Magazine.
Congratulations Massimo!(more...)
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