User:Aeong/Open Source Hardware And Software

I don't really know what the expectations are for creating an article on this wiki, so I'm writing an article on my userpage, possibly to become a real article . This is an unfinished (very) rough first draft. Feel free to delete if it's not appropriate.

Open Source is a broad definition that is often applied to technological hardware and software. In the case of hardware, open source refers to hardware that has it's schematics available for all to see, and is copyrighted under a non restrictive license that allows anyone to make, modify, and redistribute that hardware. Open source software refers to any software that has it's source code freely available to redistribute, modify, and in some cases sell. (streamline this a bit and be more descriptive if possible)

Important distinction

Open source has been co-opted by corporations, and has had it's meaning watered down over time (remove this entire line of text with something better, preferrable have a bit of history first)