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Old 04-06-2010, 05:46 PM   #196
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Originally Posted by stustaff View Post
Maybe I dont understand open source then, I believed that for a device to be truly open source the software(all of it) and hardware((i.e.schematics, bill of materials and PCB layout data) must be completely available for others to use in accordance with a licence tied to the device?
I think the point was that while you praise many of the devices you list as evidence that Open Source "stuff" is no good... yet you neglect to realize that many of those devices run on top of Open Source software. The PS3 for example. TiVo uses the Linux Kernal. OS X is built on top of FREE BSD and includes a lot of open source stuff in it like perl, python, ruby, apache, samba, etc. etc.

Open source software has been very good for the computer and home electronics industry. Oh, and many of those companies commit code back to those open source projects also.

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