Introducing the Open Source Hardware Central Bank


	Introducing the Open Source Hardware Central Bank

Djiezes

3-9-2009 7:44 AM

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bank, finance, hardware, innovation, money, open source, oss, technology

Djiezes says:

Thoughts on applying Open Source on Hardware, as compared to the usual paradigm of Open Source Software.

An in-depth look on the specific difficulties in this area. And more importantly a proposal on how to alleviate these: combining Open Source Finance with Open Source Hardware.

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