Re: gEDA-user: Open hardware talk by IBM at NYLUG (New York, NY, USA)

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:16:40PM -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> GEDA users may find this talk of interest:
> 
> Please join us the first week of May for a special presentation by
> Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo, of IBM Venture Capital.
> 
> "Spreading to the Edges: Growing a VC Ecosystem in a Multi-layered
> Open Model"
> 
> The open model for solutions development is quickly extending from
> software to other technology areas, such as hardware and
> services. Specifically, just as open source has spawned a revolution

What is the open hardware according to this gentleman? Such a definition
can be quite flexible, i. e. proprietary hardware implemented using
undocumented chips with open-source driver or documentation.

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> in the technical, business, and legal model for software, open
> hardware will provide a swell of collaborative innovation that will
> create entirely new markets and provide significant business benefits
> to the most creative, most reliable, and most adaptable semiconductor,
> EDA, System-On-Chip (SoC), systems, SW, and service houses. 
> 
> Read more at:
> 
> http://www.nylug.org/home/index.shtml
> 
> I intend to go, if at all possible.  
> 
> Stuart