Democratizing production through open source knowledge: from open software to open hardware

Democratizing Production through Open Source Knowledge: From Open Software to Open Hardware

From Open Source Software to Open Source Hardware

The open source software principles progressively give rise to new initiatives for culture (free culture), data (open data) or hardware (open hardware). The open hardware is experiencing a significant growth but the business models and legal aspects are not well known. This paper is dedicated to the economics of open hardware. We define the open hardware concept and determine intellectual prope...

Democratizing Business Software: Small Business Ecosystems for Open Source Applications

Software Security through Open Source *

The last few years have shown a worldwide rise in the attention for, and actual use of, open source software (OSS), most notably of the operating system Linux and various applications running on top of it. Variousmajor companies and governments are adopting OSS. As a result, there are many publications concerning its advantages and disadvantages. The ongoing discussions cover a wide range of to...

Open Source Hardware

The open source software movement has had an enormous impact on today’s techonology. We see this more and more in recent years. It has aided academic research, it has changed the way many tech companies do business, and it has changed our society. More recently (though not for the first time), the idea of open source hardware has been getting a lot of attention. The purpose of this paper is to ...