For open source, whether open source software and hardware, there are many public cognitive misunderstandings. One of the biggest, it is open source = free = you can use it casually. The father of Linux is just the most famous and most influential open source sports participants in the world. He is far more than an open source, for diversity and understanding of communication methods, far beyond the cognitive misunderstandings mentioned above. For his remarks, we give us what inspiration.
Last week Linus at the Okland Open Source Conference "I am not a good person, I don't care about you" is reproduced by the domestic website. However, because the open source of domestic influence is far from so extensive, the media is basically not in reproducing, and then there is no more.
Take a closer look at the content of Linus remarks, which is intended to emphasize multi-diversity, and think that there is no need to fall into the ideology. "Open Source AS A Term and As a Movement Hasn't Been About 'You Have to Be a Believer'. It is seen from the literal, he thinks that the idea of opening sources is to better in technology. It does not have to limit your choice, of course, in terms of persisting, he also opposes the performance of the performance.
It is said that there is currently 180,000 open source projects on GIT, and I only evaluate the opening source of hardware projects due to their own career categories.
Speaking of the open source hardware abroad, is already a state of flowering. Some chestnuts, open source radio RTL-SDR; open source 3D printer Deltas, Ultimake; open source CNC device DiylilCNC; open source aircraft project APM; open source gene sequencing project openpcr; also familiar open source control panel: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc. Open source hardware is also full of vitality.
In fact, due to the development of China's electronics industry over the past decade, the impact of the cottage movement, China's progress in mold, hardware, chip, talent reserves has reached the world level, and it has other than the integrity of the industrial chain. The efficiency and cost cannot be replaced in the region. So there is reason to believe that in the open source hardware project, China has postproof some advantages, and the at least should improve the situation in the open source software project in the open source software project.
However, domestic open source hardware is still in the starting stage. There are not many projects that can be filed, and I can say there is not much, and it is basically difficult to achieve the influence of foreign similar projects. For example WRTNODE, Makeblock, Banana Pi, Pcduino, EVB, etc.
At present, the development of domestic open source influence projects currently has the following characteristics, first of all, many projects are based on similar functions to provide foreign open source hardware projects, but higher cost performance acts as selling points. For example, the WRTNode project uses a higher cost-effective MTK WiFi chip plus OpenWRT; Banana Pi and Pcduino adopt a full-scale dual-core A7 chip to imitate the control function of the Raspberry Pist; MakeBlock uses aluminum alloy instead of plastic Lego blocks; EVB uses full The control panel of the CPU replaces the EV3 controller of the Lego Mindstorm.
Second, most open source hardware projects use foreign crowdfunding platforms to promote. In the past six months, the Chinese team is concerned about the crowdfunding situation on Kickstarter. In fact, foreign counterparts are basically the first feeling of the Chinese team's products. So open source hardware class projects, because of the full open characteristics, it will allow them to hold a lot of money to put out the bag.
There is also a domestic open source hardware project, in fact, it is also facing the same difficulties in open source software. In a large fish eating small fish, the intellectual property, such as paper, the promotion of domestic open source hardware projects in the country's scope is basically unattended, so that the main players of the project are basically foreign developers.
It is important to remind that domestic open source hardware projects also need to carefully understand the different licenses of open source communities, such as GPL, BSD, MIT, Mozilla, Apache, and LGPL, etc., choose a license policy that suits you.
In fact, the road to the open source hardware of Chinese characteristics itself requires a variety of differences to find their position. If domestic open source hardware projects have high cost performance, alternative and playability, I believe that domestic players will take the initiative to take the initiative. And hardware projects are born with higher thresholds than software projects, even if the cottage needs to have this money. Said so much, actually as a player, I still tend to be the attitude of Linus, I hope that we can first have more cool, more samples, if the project is to consider considering the standard of humans and moral guards, It is estimated that the minister can't do it.
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