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2016 Year in Preview: The Future of Open Source

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Of all our recent discussions about future tech predictions and how electronics platforms might evolve over the next 12 months., this is perhaps the most semantic.


After all, a platform, board or piece of software is either open source, or it isn't. There's not much in the way of middle ground, so the discussion almost seems void.


However, it's becoming increasingly common to find products and platforms that are mostly open source, but not entirely. Is this the way open source will go? Just keeping enough back for a company to control its own devices, and make it easier to survive the fluctuating markets? Or is that the path to the dark side?


Will Open Source Become More Open, or More Closed?


On a slightly lighter note, perhaps you'll agree with my feelings on open source, that as much as being a description of a platform's accessibility, it's also a social movement.


Some of us have a particular passion for the open source scene, and actively seek out new software and hardware not because it provides a specific function that a project needs, but because it's open source. Is that such a bad thing?


And let's say I want to join the open source scene, what's my next move? How can the scene grow and evolve and continue to encourage developers and creators to join its ranks when launching new software and hardware? What's next for open source?


Tell us all about the future of Open Source below (and what you'd like to see, as much as what we will see), and we'll reconvene this time next year to see how close we got to the mark.

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  • I think that most of the future of OS, especially OS hardware depends mostly by us. Excluding some obvious classes of contexts keeping technology open implies a lot of advantages. In the meantime - especially in the case of OS Software - a bad education of the users tends to be saw as "free" without a clear idea of what does it means "open".

     

    I have registered in my life a lot of patents (many of them already sold and all are alive on the European Patent Database). Just for this reason I am aware that this is not the way for protection nor a good management of the intellectual property. What I think it is needed is an an always more diffused education on what "Open" really means.

     

    Enrico

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  • I think that most of the future of OS, especially OS hardware depends mostly by us. Excluding some obvious classes of contexts keeping technology open implies a lot of advantages. In the meantime - especially in the case of OS Software - a bad education of the users tends to be saw as "free" without a clear idea of what does it means "open".

     

    I have registered in my life a lot of patents (many of them already sold and all are alive on the European Patent Database). Just for this reason I am aware that this is not the way for protection nor a good management of the intellectual property. What I think it is needed is an an always more diffused education on what "Open" really means.

     

    Enrico

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