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Google and Oregon Launch Open Source Initiative

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the and-knowing-is-half-the-battle dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles tells us that Google is entering into a $350,000 joint open source technology venture with both Oregon State and Portland State Universities. From the article: "With the grant, the universities will collaborate to encourage open source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to open source projects worldwide. The universities will also help provide a bridge between Oregon's universities and Oregon's growing open technology industry." Google also has their version of the announcement on blogspot.

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  1. Re:OSH? by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Open Source Hardware

    Seems they share schematics for the design. I'd imagine you could sell the hardware for profit (binaries) so long as you made the schematics (source code) available to those who bought it. Seems like a reasonable idea.

  2. Re:OSH? by po8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Open hardware is like open source; it's about designs, schematics, PCB layouts, FPGA codes, etc. There are several existing open hardware projects at Portland State, notably Portland State Aerospace Society's rockets and a Software-Defined Radio project built on the open-hardware Universal Software Radio Peripheral. More are expected.

  3. Google mentioned more than Yahoo or Linux in Oct by elfguygmail.com · · Score: 3, Informative

    Interestingly, Slashdot had a Google story 22 times since Oct 1. Yahoo had 3 times and Linux 21 times.