Biologists launch ‘open-source movement’

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Will the Open Source Movement Survive a Litigious Society?

Since no one is willing to undertake costly research and development to create innovation, incentives in the form of patents were instituted to motivate R&D. In software development, contrary to economic intuition, open source software has emerged as a viable alternative source of innovation. The patenting system has performed reasonably well in enhancing many other technologies. Since the mid-...

The Open Source Movement: Implications for Education Comprehensive Essays

re: Content To have written 'comprehensively' on any subject is difficult with or without limits. Similarly, to write comprehensive papers regarding such complex and diverse topics as I have before me, and to limit myself to 20 pages per topic, is certainly a formidable task. Obviously, I have had to make choices on what content I should include, and what I should not. And these choices were ne...

A Scalable Open-Source Digital Video System for Launch Range Operations

Raging incrementalism [1] is a systems engineering methodology designed to capitalize on the force of hyperexponential change, the ongoing acceleration of overall technical progress. Numerous pivotal technologies are not only improving at an exponential pace, but the pace itself is accelerating [2], yielding hyperexponential improvement overall. In the large, the rate of technical progress is d...

NicoLase—An open-source diode laser combiner, fiber launch, and sequencing controller for fluorescence microscopy

Modern fluorescence microscopy requires software-controlled illumination sources with high power across a wide range of wavelengths. Diode lasers meet the power requirements and combining multiple units into a single fiber launch expands their capability across the required spectral range. We present the NicoLase, an open-source diode laser combiner, fiber launch, and software sequence controll...