“It will come as no surprise to many that the notion of open
source is not just for software. I recently spoke with Bob Waldie,
CEO of Opengear, about his efforts to apply the open source model
to hardware.“LinuxPlanet: Your background is in hardware,
right?“Bob Waldie: Each business I have been in over the past 20 years
has developed hardware solutions. But there’s always been a wealth
of software embedded in these hardware products. The R&D teams
were always predominantly software, and the innovation in our
products, and the value we delivered to customers, invariably is
found in the software, even though we deliver it shrowd in
hardware. So I’d say I have a hardware and embedded software
background…”
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