[IAEP] Slashdot: Open Source Hardware Hits 1.0

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Kevin Cole's message of Fri Feb 11 20:35:15 +0100 2011:

> Source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/009206/Open-Source-Hardware-Hits-10

Some prior art for definitions of Open Hardware (from [1]):

http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/open_hardware.html
http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/definitions.html
http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/whyfree.html


The idea itself might even be older than Open Source Software (cf.
Heathkit [2], starting in 1947).

Sascha

[1] http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit
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