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Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's sources. Some consider it as a philosophy, and others consider it as a pragmatic methodology. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet and its enabling of diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.The complexity of such communication relates to Brooks' law, and it is also described by Eric S. Raymond, "Brooks predicts that as your number of programmers N rises, work performed scales as N but complexity and vulnerability to bugs rises as N-squared. N-squared tracks the number of communications paths (and potential code interfaces) between developers' code bases." -- "The Revenge of the Hackers". 2000. Subsequently, open source software became the most prominent face of open source.
The open source model can allow for the concurrent use of different agendas and approaches in production, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies.Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. ed 3.0. 2000.
History
Those involved with journalism and open source intelligence used the earliest known practices of open source that focused on accessibility rather than modification of sources. Software developers used to commonly release their code under public domain until they wanted to control how such freely accessible sources are modified and distributed. Developers, like the Free Software Foundation, began to license their work, but they still kept it as free software. More on [ Open source ]
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Ready for the iProd?
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:54 -0700
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Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated)
Fri, 16 May 2008 08:17:15 -0700
Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored his 2007 tour. Note to Cupertino: send him a 3G iPhone, like, today. Although RIM hasn't said...
Photo of rumored Palm Treo 800w appears
Fri, 16 May 2008 07:40:13 -0700
Back in the day when I had a Palm OS Treo I used to load up the custom ROMs created by Shadowmite since they took out a bunch of junk that was included by default and helped me recover some available memory. It seems he scored the first photos of...
Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008
Fri, 16 May 2008 04:46:07 -0700
Americans spent $1.23 bln on video games, hardware and accessories in April 2008, up 47% from April 2007. Total hardware sales grew 26% to $426.2 mln, with the Wii selling 714,200 units, followed by the handheld Nintendo DS at 414,800. Software sales surged to $654.7 mln from $389.4 mln in...
Introduction to BIT
Fri, 16 May 2008 00:15:30 -0700
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Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
Thu, 15 May 2008 20:06:49 -0700
Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
Opencores.org - Seeks to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software.
Meta Description: [ OPENCORES.ORG endorses development and hosts
a repository of free, open-source cores (chip designs) and supplemental
platforms (boards). ]
Art Interface Device - The Art Interface Device (AID) is a microprocessor platform for building electronic installation art. It can also be used as an interface between such artworks and computers. It will enable the artworks to respond to people and the physical environment.
Meta Description: [ This page is the home page for the Art Interface Device, an open source hardware project produced in co-operation with Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre. ]
DAISY - Aims to make VLIW and other novel ILP architectures hundred percent compatible with popular existing architectures such as PowerPC, x86, and S/390, as well as the Java Virtual Machine.
Ethernut - Open Source embedded Ethernet Board combining and ATmega 128 with Realteks RTL8019AS.
Free Model Foundry - Advancing standard modeling practices within the electrical engineering community. Supporting the use of VHDL, Verilog, and IBIS modeling languages.
Hamburg VHDL Archive - Provides a collection of free, public-domain or shareware, VHDL documentation, models, and tools.
Linux Today - Richard Stallman's thoughts on free hardware.
Manticore - Formerly called The HULK, Manticore is an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator. It is written entirely in VHDL.
Microcontroller: VHDL: PIC 16C5X - One stable version, and another one under development.
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Open Source Hardware - Industry analysis paper for a college course proposing a business to apply the Open Source model to hardware.
OpenCollector Database - Site has a searchable index of many designs, tools and manufacturers.
Meta Description: [ Links to pages and projects related
to open hardware and free EDA systems ]
PalmBot - A site that documents what you need to build your Palm based robot.
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SCEZ - Smart Card Library - Smart Card Library with documentation on hardware modifications to run that cards on a palm.
SystemC - Broadly supported C++ open source language and simulation kernel for modeling and implementing electronic systems.
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The PalmOS Open Source Portal - Provides a database of links to Palm based open source hardware projects, such as memory cards and sensors.
ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design - Non-profit initiative that supports open source development and hosts a public repository of engineering design innovations in critical problem domains, such as low-power devices and portable health-care solutions for rural settings.
Writings on Open Source Hardware - A collection of links to writings on themes related to Open Source Hardware like definitions, libraries, talks and conferences.
| Chris Holmes ABSTRACT This talk will introduce GeoServer, an open source server to publish and edit geospatial data using open standards with Google Earth, Google Maps, and | |
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