[Discuss] is intel edison open-source hardware?

Nancy Ouyang nancy.ouyang at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 00:39:26 UTC 2015


sorry, the galileo. i couldn't figure out from the web if Intel claims
edison is open-source or not, but a friend told me it wasn't.

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On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Nancy Ouyang <nancy.ouyang at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/galileo-maker-quark-board.html
>
> *Providing users with a fully open source hardware* and software
> development environment, the Intel Galileo Gen 2 board complements and
> extends the Arduino line of product
>
> 10 clicks in all I found was a PDF of the schematic.
> http://www.intel.com/support/galileo/sb/CS-035168.htm
>
> While better than nothing, that certainly doesn't fulfill the definition:
>
> "The hardware must be released with documentation including design files,
> and must allow modification and distribution of the design files. "
> "These are the original source files that you would use to make
> modifications to the hardware’s design. *The act of sharing these files
> is the core practice of open-source hardware*."
> http://www.oshwa.org/definition/
>
> Just checking if someone knows better than me what's going on here.
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