Google and Oregon Launch Open Source Initiative

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 25, 2005 @12:32PM 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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Re:OSH? by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · 2005-10-25 12:55 · 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.