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| | Computer hardware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The boundary between hardware and software is slightly blurry—firmware is software that is "built-in" to the hardware. | | | Hardware comprises all of the physical parts of a computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the software that provides instructions for the hardware to accomplish tasks. | | | Firmware is usually the province of computer programmers and computer engineers in any case and not an issue that computer users need to concern themselves with. |
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| | Open Souce Hardware Page |
| | This is why hardware and software are similiar: the incremental cost of distributing both is very small. | | | These ideas have succeeded so well with open source software projects like Linux and Apache because software can be easily reproduced and distributed via the internet. | | | Microsoft is a much larger player in computer hardware than what one might first think. |
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| | EETimes.com - An introduction to open-source hardware development |
| | Hardware designers will be able to code modules or cores for specific FPGA computing machines or future computers. | | | Hardware synthesis tools generate a netlist of a particular device, using a digital or analog library. | | | The objective of this stage is to allow an open-source hardware user to download open designs from Internet, and implement designs on prototyping boards, just as computer users download open-source software and run it on general-purpose processors in personal computers. |
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http://eetimes.com/news/design/features/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22103383
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| | Halfbakery: Open Source Hardware Initiative |
| | Open source hardware must be backed by the open source software community to develop the tools necessary for building, testing, and laying out circuitry to be printed on the PCB router. | | | I believe that, just as a computer is the physical tool to develop open source software, a PCB router would be the first key to developing open source hardware. | | | Open source hardware is feasible, reproducible, and implementable so long as users develop or get a hold of a tool to develop open source hardware. |
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http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Open_20Source_20Hardware_20Initiative
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| | [SSLUG] Open hardware |
| | Open Hardware and Debian are trademarks of Software in the Public Interest, the non-profit organization that produces the Debian Linux Distribution. | | | Users who buy equipment with the "Open Hardware" logo are assured that a change in operating system or even the demise of the manufacturer will not make it impossible to get new software written for their devices. | | | Details of on-board firmware and the hardware implementation need not be disclosed except when necessary to make it possible to program a driver for the device. |
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http://www.sslug.dk/emailarkiv/old/1997/msg00750.html
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| | What is 'Open Source Hardware'? |
| | Open Hardware and Free Software: a comparison of the reasons behind open hardware and the free software movement | | | Discusses the social, ecological, and economic framework for free software and hardware design, illustrated by the example of a computer designed to minimize manufacturing costs and parts required. | | | Wiki discussion of an idea to boot-strap free hardware design through self-build PCB routers. |
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http://opencollector.org/Whyfree
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| | :: Computers :: Hardware :: Open Source |
| | This category is for computer hardware developed and licensed openly and freely. | | | Open Source Hardware - Industry analysis paper for a college course proposing a business to apply the Open Source model to hardware. | | | Web Search for Computers Hardware Open Source - News search for Computers Hardware Open Source - encyclopedia entries for Computers Hardware Open Source |
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http://www.localadsearch.com/Computers/Hardware/Open_Source
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| | Will The Open Hardware Movement Fail? |
| | He believes the qualities and freedoms that make Free Software superior to proprietary software can't be translated into the hardware world. | | | I've had people take hardware that I've created (dprg h-bridge project) and improve on it and use it for their own robots. | | | article for Embedded Systems in which he gives his reasons why Open Hardware won't evolve to challenge the closed, proprietary hardware we're stuck with today. |
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http://robots.net/article/497.html
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| | Open-source credo moves to chip design Tech News on ZDNet |
| | The hardware must be made to be compatible with software used in devices. | | | Established chipmakers such as Intel and IBM might not be directly challenged by open-source hardware because their technology, such as Intel's X86 processor architecture, is protected by a number of closely held patents. | | | Despite the potential for new businesses to crop up, it's unlikely open-source hardware will be as disruptive to hardware makers as open-source software has been to the software industry and players such as Microsoft. |
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-802558.html?legacy=zdnn
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| | Omniseek: /Computing /Open Source /Hardware / |
| | Open Design Circuits are the chip design counterparts of Open Source Software, with designs (sources) openly shared among developers and users. | | | recent developments have seen the rise of open-source hardware, hardware initiatives that are designed to make hardware easier-to-use for embedded design. |
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http://www.omniseek.com/srch/{2673}
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| | In all the cases listed below, some hardware is open and some is not - but the trend is for open-ness to become more and more limited, restricting the freedom of designers to create or implement their own designs, and even of programmers to write the programs they wish. | | | But for other types of hardware, information about the underlying technologies is a commercial secret so that only the companies which own these secrets can create libraries or even efficient design tools which use them. | | | This aspect of open-ness in hardware is so closely linked with work on free software that the FSF, Debian, and FreeBSD are all among the sponsors for the Open Hardware Certification program which |
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http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/open_hardware.html
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| | Embedded.com - Open-Source Hardware |
| | Hardware needs to be frozen earlier in development so the programmers have something to work on (sound familiar?). | | | Maybe it's that ten-year delay again, but "spaghetti hardware" is as prevalent as spaghetti code used to be. | | | Open source is a powerful force in software development. |
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http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20020524S0078
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| | LinuxPlanet - Interviews - Opengear Focuses on Open Source Hardware - Evolution of a Business Model |
| | But there was no such open source solution for KVM-over-IP, and this is becuase there is no generic hardware layer that the open source software could interface to (like the UART that conserver talks to). | | | One model is to make the design totally open so the 'licensees' can use the designs freely to develop proprietary derivative works (akin to the BSD software license). | | | Alternatively we may want to link this free use of the hardware design, to also running the embedded okvm software, which is covered by a standard GPL license. |
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/interviews/5922/1
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| | Kids: Computers: Hardware - Open Site |
| | All the parts of the computer that you can see and touch are called hardware, though many parts of the computer you will need to ask a grown-up about before touching because they might be dangerous. | | | These things are called output hardware devices because they put information out of the computer. | | | These things are called input hardware devices because they can put information into the computer. |
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http://open-site.org/Kids/Computers/Hardware
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| | Art Interface Device - an open source hardware project |
| | There are common requirements for computer hardware interfacing in the art context that could be compiled into a library of common solutions thereby reducing the amount of "reinventing the wheel" that occurs even for experienced users. | | | AID System Architecture - is a specification for a structured implementation of hardware and software such that independently developed solutions coming from the user community can be combined easily. | | | AID Firmware - this software program is the code that defines the functions of the microprocessor. |
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http://interaccess.org/aid/elements.html
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| | Open Hardware Ain't Easy |
| | That’s the difference between open hardware and open software: Linux and *BSD can be as good as proprietary operating systems, maybe even better, but the F-CPU project may always lag behind. | | | Designing an open 64-bit CPU without funding, a fab or any previous experience in the field turned out to be tougher than expected for these do-it-yourself chip makers. | | | We can’t compete with Intel, AMD or IBM anyway—they use the latest-and-greatest 90nm SOI low-k copper you-name-it silicon technology, which will probably never be available—and affordable—for open hardware projects (at least until there is something even more sophisticated). |
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http://www.f-cpu.org/whygee/OpenHardwareAintEasy/OpenHardwareAintEasy.html
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| | InformationWeek > Open Hardware > IBM VC Calls For 'Open' Hardware > April 8, 2005 |
| | Thus, for Carballo, the word "open" includes but is not limited to the classical definition of open source, in which source is freely available and a community of users can contribute modifications. | | | It might mean the hardware can be used for free in a design that can be sold. | | | The word "open" has various meanings with respect to hardware and silicon intellectual property (IP), he said. |
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160503358
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| | EETimes.com - Doors 'open' to hardware |
| | Given the increasingly prohibitive costs of developing hardware from scratch, open hardware is an attractive possibility. | | | Is "open" hardware a disruptive technology that will foster the kind of collaboration that Linux brought to the software world? | | | That effort was launched last year in India, with the stated goal of becoming the "Linux of the semiconductor world." While never fully opened to the public, it was seeking "qualified contributors" who would have access to EDA source code and to hardware and software intellectual property (IP). |
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http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163702854
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| | Manticore - Open Source 3D Graphics Accelerator |
| | Manticore is an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator. | | | Ultimately, an open board design will be developed, creating an entirely open source PC graphics accelerator. | | | For more information about the DSL, see www.dsl.org/copyleft and Open Source Beyond Software on the O'Reilly Network. |
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| | Refurbished and Used Cisco Routers and Cisco Switches and More - Network Hardware Resale |
| | When you buy used and refurbished Cisco equipment from Network Hardware Resale, you can be assured that the product you buy is fully-tested and guaranteed to be in excellent physical and working condition. | | | NHR also carries the full line of pre-owned, refurbished, and used Juniper Routers, Extreme Switches and Redback Routers. | | | Refurbished and Used Cisco Routers and Cisco Switches and More - Network Hardware Resale |
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| | Jamil Khaitb's OpenHardware designs and links |
| | Free chips for all: The status of open hardware designs. | | | OpenIPCore Project A free hardware design trend concepts and licensing. | | | This article was published at IBM's open source developers work |
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/6639/openhw.html
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| | News Wrap: Palm, Sage, Open hardware, Papal blessings - Webact!ve |
| | A group of open source developers is working on a method of bringing the open source ethic to the hardware industry. | | | Developers around the world are hooking up online to create the OpenCores community, which seeks to develop a collection of freely available hardware designs, similar to the freely available code for the Linux OS. | | | Palm pares back staff; Sage to buy Interact Commerce; Open source moves to hardware; Buy your blessings online |
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http://www.webactivemagazine.co.uk/news/1119755
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| | LUGcamp Vortrag vom 2003.05.29 - Hardware: Funktionsweise, Selbstbau, programmierbare Logik, Open Source |
| | Deren Erweiterung auf Hardware herstellen könnte daher offen selber hergestellt werden. | | | Dieser Vortrag beschreibt was Hardware ist, wie sie funktioniert, wie man selber moderne Hardware herstellen kann auf der Basis von programmierbarer Logik, wie man Hardware Designs wie Software open source machen kann, und was die Folgen dieser Entwicklung sein könnten. | | | Der Wunsch open source Hardware Designs zu haben, die jeder User einfach herunterladen, "ausdrucken", modifizieren kann, mit nur open source Software, benötigt offene Chip Herstellungs Architekturen, und da steht es momentan schlecht drum aus. |
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http://neil.franklin.ch/Articles/20030530_LUGcamp_Open_Hardware.html
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| | “Open” Hardware |
| | The design of the hardware must be made public. | | | The hardware has been made better from a commercial viewpoint 12 | | | The hardware has been made better for future work 13 |
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http://www.enseirb.fr/~kadionik/rmll2004/presentation/david_braendler/david_braendler.html
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| | Re: "Open" Hardware. |
| | This isn't their fault, Open Hardware is a brand new concept and they are certainly more open with their software than anyone else in the biz. | | | I may even use their hardware when it fits. | | | Consultancy: Wide Open Technologies: Moving Business and Automation to Linux. |
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| | Open-graphics Info Page |
| | There is a great need in the Free Software and Open Source communities for graphics cards which have open specifications, and my employer, Tech Source, would like to meet those needs in a technically and economically feasible way. | | | As the user community, we need to be clever, fair, and realistic about the requirements we place on the hardware that is being designed here. | | | I'm sure many hardware vendors see the Free Software a community as a minority that asks for special attention. |
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| | Embedded Ethernet |
| | Ethernut is an Open Source Hardware and Software Project for building tiny Embedded Ethernet Devices. | | | The well documented software is an Open Source implementation of a Real Time Operating System called Nut/OS and a TCP/IP protocol suite named Nut/Net. | | | The developer can choose between two different development environments, the freely available GNU AVR Compiler Collection for Linux and Windows and the commercially supported ImageCraft AVR Compiler for Windows. |
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| | Hardware Extreme - The Next Generation of Computers and Technology |
| | Hardware Extreme - The Next Generation of Computers and Technology | | | Apart from that reviews on other hardware, including the newer 9600XT and the Geforce FX 5600. | | | According to X-Bit Labs, the highly-anticipated Half-Life 2 game will have a major bug with current DirectX 9.0 hardware resulting in impossibility in enabling Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing, a popular feature that dramatically improves image quality in games. |
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| | Open Audio Hardware Guide |
| | AudioX is an open standard developed by Cakewalk in cooperation with leading hardware and software developers. | | | As the leading developer of music and sound software for Windows, Cakewalk has always advocated and supported open industry standards, giving you the flexibility to create the best hardware and software configuration according to your own needs. | | | The maximum amount of inputs or outputs that our other programs will use is 2/2. |
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| | DarkVision Hardware - enlightens your mind |
| | Just as with a typical desktop computer, there are limitations to what certain configurations can achieve, but customizing the hardware and software can enhance the experience to the point where it may threaten the existence of some of your more traditional home electronics components. | | | A BIOS upgrade is needed to make your computer to recognize a new CPU, and the manual is necessary if you want to check how much RAM your computer is able to recognize, for example. | | | HTPCs don't have to be much different than your typical computer, but a few key areas do need to be addressed. |
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| | 22SURFBOARD: LINUX MEDIA-SERVER, HANDHELD, PERSONAL-MUSIC PLAYER RUNNING LAMP APPLICATIONS :: Open Source CMS & DRM |
| | The prior-art shows countless examples of devices which were never truly open and thus ultimately failed to gain the essential widespead use throughout the hacker community. | | | Open-source CMS and DRM will power tomorrow's content marketplaces, handhelds, computers, and media-servers, as artist-hackers create the open-source hardware, software, and standards for all-in-one media devices, record labels, media marketplaces, and modeling agencies. | | | Even with this guarded information, the custom chips in the device were never completely documented and it made it nearly impossible for the community to develop open source versions of its own ROMs and drivers. |
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| | Van's Hardware Journal: Home |
| | As a veteran computer hardware analyst and as a CPU RandD engineer, I can honestly state that OSMark has matured into an outstanding benchmark that fares very well when compared with any commercial benchmark, while COSBI OpenSourceMark has the tremendous advantage of being 100% verifiable due its open source nature. | | | Where lots of ole' hardware buffs talk about making early iron work with later software (Linux and MS being primary). | | | I write and run benchmarks and analyze their results for a living. |
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| | infoAnarchy Comments Amiga Inc: "Close That Open Hardware!" |
| | AmigaOS will not be sold in any other way than bundled with licensed hardware. | | | Amiga-the-hardware is officially dead, but Amiga-the-OS is being developed and will run on third-party hardware. | | | Now there's an online effort organised by both the current and potential AmigaOS camp, users and developers of operating systems already running on POP/PPC hardware as well as POP-based and other Open Hardware developers. |
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http://www.infoanarchy.org/comments/2002/6/8/10586/14936/0/post
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| | Open Source - News, Software, Hardware, Linux News |
| | Open Source Development Labs - Focused on enterprise level/corporate Linux development | | | Open Source - News, Software, Hardware, Linux News | | | Sincere Choice - For fairness in software markets, a project of the Global Technology Policy Institute in response to the Microsoft sponsored Software Choice |
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| | Open Hardware Certification Program |
| | We also want to promote a "Open Hardware Certified" Brand that hardware vendors (both system boxes and device controllers) will be able to use to inform customers of their compatibility with Linux, Free BSD and other open source operating systems. | | | This program is designed to develop and promote a test suite, and to serve as an information repository that will allow you to verify that your hardware configuration is Linux or FreeBSD ready. | | | Welcome to the Open Hardware Certification Program Web site. |
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| | www.palmopensource.com - The PalmOS Open Source Portal - |
| | Phoinix - Formerly known as PalmBoy, Phoinix is a Nintendo Gameboy(TM) open source emulator for the Palm Computing® Platform. | | | And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing... | | | When programmers on the Internet can read, redistribute, and modify the source for a piece of software, it evolves. |
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| | The Hamburg VHDL Archive |
| | The goal of the project is to develop a VHDL-93 compliant simulator with graphical waveform viewer, source level debugger, and with commercial quality. | | | A project to develop a free, open source, GPL'ed VHDL simulator for Linux! | | | The yet classical introduction into VHDL and hardware design by Peter J. Ashenden. |
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http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl
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| | Open hardware |
| | This isn't just about hardware, but software of the hardware as well (GNU drivers). | | | With Openhardware people meet, discuss what they are doing and ask each other for assistance in finding parts, or looking for ideas to solve a design problem. | | | Open Hardware (OH) is people sharing their designs with each other through the disclosure of their schematics and software systems used on their designs. |
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| | Monster-Hardware |
| | Hardware Secrets has a everything you need to know about logic gates article, which is the heart and blood of digital electronics. | | | Ninjalane has a review of the DFI Infinity nF4 Ultra motherboard designed for the enthusiast on a budget. | | | For those of you out there with a white box machine Hardware Secrets tells you how to find out your motherboard manufacturer and model using software. |
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| | LWN: Open Hardware ARM SBC - 'Balloon' available |
| | Users are encouraged to make public the designs they develop which may be useful to others; this is an example of the application of Open Source principles to hardware, not just software. | | | They made a card to allow Acorn computers to run Windows in a window, and work on the development of ARMLinux and its applications. | | | Learn how to easily and rapidly customize Linux to the unique requirements of your embedded project |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/68957
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| | An Introduction to Open-Source Hardware |
| | Like Open Source software, open hardware has the potential to greatly benefit the developing parts of the world, leveling the playing field by making high quality products available with the high licensing fees and restrictive sharing policies typical of proprietary products. | | | The article explains the similarities of open hardware to Free/Open software. | | | interesting items in the currently available pool of open hardware. |
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| | TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet |
| | The interface information -- the technical data needed to write software that would allow those chips to be used in novel ways -- is normally kept secret by manufacturers. | | | The manufacturers of the equipment allegedly refused to provide the information needed to do this, saying the release of such information would be illegal since it would let people change the way a chip that uses unlicensed spectrum works, an interpretation that goes by a pretty tight reading of the law: | | | Though the spectrum is open, the microprocessor chips that drive the devices which use it are not. |
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| | Software in the Public Interest, Inc. |
| | SPI is a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. | | | We encourage programmers to use any license that allows for the free modification, redistribution and use of software, and hardware developers to distribute documentation that will allow device drivers to be written for their product. | | | SPI now able to accept donations via check from Canada |
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| | Open Hardware Project - ГНУтому софту ГНУтое железо! |
| | Этот проект создан для продвижения идеи открытого hardware и оказания поддержки уже существующим проектам подобного рода. | | | Если у Вас есть желание и возможности, присоединяйтесь к разработке открытого hardware, это тот же пингвин (Linux), только железный :D. | | | Open Hardware Project - ГНУтому софту ГНУтое железо! |
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| | OpenPatents.org Home |
| | The basic idea behind OpenPatents.org is to change the rules of the patent game such that it is to the advantage of participants to help solve the problems of software patents. | | | contain language such that submitted patents are available for Open Source/Free Software use; and | | | The Open Patent License is in effect a mutual nonagression pact, with a number of additions that: |
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| | SourceForge.net: Project Info - Open Hardware Certification Program |
| | Goal: To develop an open source test suite and certification program which will reliably ensure the proper functionality of hardware running Open Source operating systems (currently Linux and FreeBSD). | | | SourceForge.net: Project Info - Open Hardware Certification Program | | | View list of RSS feeds available for this project |
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