Comments on: Sun is about to change the world https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3105 2002-2015 Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:15:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Tommy https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3105#comment-12795 Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:15:31 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/12/sun_is_about_to_change_the_wor.html#comment-12795 What the open source movement needs are open source usability engineers or designers.

]]> By: Joe Buck https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3105#comment-12794 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:13:40 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/12/sun_is_about_to_change_the_wor.html#comment-12794 Open source hardware isn’t new. See opencores.org for quite a bit of it. Once you grasp what is already out there, you’ll see that Sun’s contribution, while generous, is by no means world-changing.

Digital logic design based on FPGAs could be widely accessible; setups suitable for hobbyists don’t cost that much.

]]> By: Greg Steffensen https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3105#comment-12793 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:00:56 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/12/sun_is_about_to_change_the_wor.html#comment-12793 Agreed- this may be important, but not in the way that open source is. The number of people able to contribute to this is too small, and their time too valuable, for groups of amateurs to make incremental improvements in their spare time. Its likely more valuable to institutions- universities, and maybe governments- that will be able to do their own work more efficiently with a complete understanding of how their hardware works.

]]> By: Scott Mark https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3105#comment-12792 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:55:37 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/12/sun_is_about_to_change_the_wor.html#comment-12792 Simon Phipps – their Chief Open Source Officer – blogged about this here – http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=open_source_hardware. Like he points out, this is cool in a different way than FOSS, which can be pulled down and compiled/used much more easily. This is really about community and transparency for a better product. A very Good Thing.

]]> By: Scott Mark https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3105#comment-12791 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:50:52 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/12/sun_is_about_to_change_the_wor.html#comment-12791 Simon Phipps – their Chief Open Source Officer – blogged about this here – http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=open_source_hardware. Like he points out, this is cool in a different way than FOSS, which can be pulled down and compiled/used much more easily. This is really about community and transparency for a better product. A very Good Thing.

]]> By: Scott Mark https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3105#comment-12790 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:46:42 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/12/sun_is_about_to_change_the_wor.html#comment-12790 Simon Phipps – their Chief Open Source Officer – blogged about this here – http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=open_source_hardware. Like he points out, this is cool in a different way than FOSS, which can be pulled down and compiled/used much more easily. This is really about community and transparency for a better product. A very Good Thing.

]]> By: Scott https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3105#comment-12789 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:13:29 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/12/sun_is_about_to_change_the_wor.html#comment-12789 This would not be the first open hardware project. There are currently people developing an OpenGraphics card. Here is their website, http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Open-Graphics .

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