Mellis, co-founder of the Arduino open source hardware circuit boards, wrote the following in 2008 , but it is still of interest. David Mellis: “Open-source hardware requires money. This fundamentally distinguishes the nature of its participants from those of open-source software. David A. In open-source software, the fundamental contributor is the developer, many of whom collaborate in order to create a single software application.

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/Message « Blogs Go Mainstream: Advertising Toilets | Main | Stowe Boyd » September 05, 2007 The Architecture of Sociality: Building In Openness by Stowe Boyd A lot of discussion boiling recently about openness in social applications (like the Bill Of Rights movement manifesto and supporting comments , and Brad Fitzpatricks Thoughts On The Social Graph . I offer a thought about deductive openness, by which I mean a path of low resistance for developers of application. Rather than striving for a theoretical openness, based on high-minded principles, I believe that developers will likely taking tactical, well-understood and intuitive paths toward adopting common services.

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For many years users with accounts on multiple networks (say, AOL and MSN), would have to keep multiple programs open, which ate up system resources and cluttered desktops. Yahoo and MSN attempted to enact similar measures against third party clients with limited success, as their restrictions were quickly cracked. Eventually the battles between third party IM clients and the networks died down to a simmer A while ago, Robert Young had already predicted that the interoperability of instant messaging services with each other, and with the social networking sites, may lead to a quantum leap of filesharing potential : “

Million And Goes Open Source Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 28, 2008 11:00 AM / 6 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » The San Francisco based social groupware provider Grou.ps announced today that it has secured a Series A round of financing for $1.1 has also announced that it is open sourcing a restricted version of its code under the Affero Public License . ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Grou.ps

What makes it of interest today is Yahoo’s shutdown of GeoCities and what it illustrates about the difference between an open platform and a commons. Bottom line: an open platform may serve many useful purposes, but it is not the same thing as a commons, and the users may or may not be able to protect their long-term interests as a community. An open website may resemble a commons in providing general access to The community is subservient to the company, and the company may own the content and can dictate how the site is run. Corporate spaces come with “terms of service”

Source : Open Letter to Lord Mandelson , First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills (UK). public, collective, standardized and open license for music on the Internet needs to be either voluntarily created by the music industry, or mandated i.e. for a download has proven to be economically detrimental and utterly unrealistic for the market participants (such as Omnifone, Spotify, Rhapsody, Napster, We7 Great summary of the filesharing issue and how to solve it by marrying consumer interests and artists income alike. By Gerd Leonhard, October