Archive for April, 2008
Sharing is caring
Most thoughts on open source are based on the idea of equipping individuals and ’small people’ in the face of corporate lockdown on great ideas. But then I got thinking again about the concept of intellectual property, which led me to… Creative Commons.
Although it’s not directly an open source element because it relates to [...]
It’s a hard(ware) life
Last week’s post on software patents has led me up a whole new path all the way to the world of open source hardware.
I recently stumbled upon MAKE ,a website of a magazine of the same name that encourages users to make their own cool hardware gadgets (like iPod chargers) based on open source [...]
Freedom gets messy
Every time I read or research a part of the open source movement, I feel as though I have pulled a thread from a gigantic rug that starts unraveling at my fingertips. Open source seems to cover so many areas from hardware to software to educational and business tools that when I begin each week [...]
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In a 2005 article on techworld.com there is an amusing quotation by someone described as “a Mozilla spokesman in Europe” who said “It’s not the case that someone is taking Firefox and making a lot of money. The revenue we have made is almost accidental.” I think the concept of open source software is very [...]
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