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Measuring the Value of Open Hardware Designs

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 9, 2015 @06:10PM from the buy-one-get-one-free dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Industry knows open source software has an immense value, but how valuable is an open hardware design? To answer that question, Dr. Joshua Pearce, an associate professor at Michigan Tech University, analyzed three methods to quantify the value of open hardware design in the latest issue of the journal Modern Economy. The methods are summarized in an article at opensource.com.

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Re:For us normal folk... by cas2000 · 2015-02-09 21:19 · Score: 1, Informative

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