Economist on Open Source Hardware
Great to see the respected magazine "The Economist" running an article on open-source hardware in its quarterly technology report - Open Sesame.
This is a clear indication that open-source hardware is still in its infancy and many opportunities exist at all levels of the pyramid to benefit from this paradigm. Students can learn from the commercial class designs, developers and customers benefit from open system architectures, interfaces and specifications, and corporations can get a better and faster pulse of the market trends.
Having open-sourced two of the crown-jewels of Sun, UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 microprocessors, with regular new feature introductions (8 releases over two years), Sun really understands the value of openness and great to see others catching up to the idea.
