Open Source Hardware Reference Documents
From Gosh! 2009: Open Source Hardware Summit
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Definitions
- Wikipedia Wikipedia definition of Open Design
General Articles on OSH Potential
- November, 2007 New York Times article on home manufacturing and open hardware
- Good article on Arduino. Includes interview with Massimo Banzi
- Can we build a world with open Source? Article by Victor Keegan in the Guardian.
- Everybody's a Manufacturer: Era of User-Generated Devices, Nikkei Electronics Asia, May 2009
Open Source Theory
- Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman The entire book! Excellent stuff
- Free software and Open Source: The Freedom Debate and Its Consequences, by Mathias Klang
- Really interesting wikipedia article on 'hacker ethics'
- Code, Culture and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development, by David Lancashire
- Globalization, Technopolitics and Revolution, by Douglas Kellner
- Computer-Linked Social Movements and the Threat to Global Capitalism, by Harry Cleaver
- David Mellis' blog, containing many insightful thoughts on OS hardware.
Open Source and Access
- The Politics of Open Source Adoption, NGOs in the Developing World, by the Tactical Technology collective
OSH and Business
- An Economic Theory of Open Source Software: A Tour from Lighthouse to Chinese-Style Socialism, by Benjamin Hak-Fung Chiao
- Business Models for Open Source Hardware Design, by Geregory Pomerantz
- Links to issues on intellectual property, trademark and Internet law on ipblog.ca
- An introduction to OSH development
- Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?, by Clive Thompson in Wired, 10/2008
- Beerware is the Old Open Source Hardware, posted by Nathan Seidle, 07/2009
- Chalkbot Versus GraffitiWriter…Round One! Ready….FIGHT!, posted by Julian Bleeker, 07/2009
OS Hardware Licenses
- The proposed TAPR Open Hardware License
- Discussion of OS Hardware Licenses on Instructables
