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Open Source Year: One Man's Experiment in Living Without Copyrighted Products

Berlin filmmaker Sam Muirhead will live for a year without proprietary goods in the ultimate DIY maker experiment. But what about toilet paper?

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Engine Yard Stokes the Boiler for Open-Source Software Developers

Hire seven experts to work for a year building a complex product. Then, give it away to anyone who wants it.

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Hackers Get Social at GitHub's Open-Source Assembly Line

GOOD Company Finalist GitHub is creating the assembly line of the information revolution.

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GOODCo Finalists: Three Software Companies Embrace Open Source

Can you make money when your main product is available for free? These software companies thrive while giving their code away for everyone's benefit.

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Open-Source Blueprints Explain How to Rebuild Civilization

Getting off the grid is an intimidating idea. Open Source Ecology intends to make it a bit more accessible.

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Q&A: Cesar Harada on the Promise of an Open-Source Oil Skimming Robot

The engineer on robot drones, the drawbacks of cutting-edge nanotechnology, and the merits of open-source inventions.

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Protei: An Open Source Fleet of Oil Spill Cleaning Robot Drones

Move over, Kevin Costner. There's a new oil spill cleaning robot in town. And this one is being developed for purpose, not profit.

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Food for Thinkers: Writing About Numbers to Hack the Food System

Food + Tech Connect's Danielle Gould finds that writing is her most important tool to build a more transparent, data-driven food system.

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Apple's Pentalobular Screws Are Keeping Consumers Out of Their Own iPhones Apple's Pentalobular Screws Are Keeping Consumers Out of Their Own iPhones

Apple's special new screws are keeping consumers out of their own gadgets and slowing the open-source progression on which computers rely. Why?

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Will Tubeless Toilet Paper Prevent Waste?

Kimberly-Clark announces tube-free toilet paper. Can it change the industry?

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Pop!Tech ’09: An Opensource Car Company

John Rogers's company, Local Motors, is novel to say the least. It's an "open source" car company that will build and distribute their models in...