Joshua M. Pearce is the John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation at the Thompson Centre for Engineering Leadership & Innovation. He holds appointments at Ivey Business School, the top ranked business school in Canada and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Western University in Canada, a top 1% global university. At Western he runs the Free Appropriate Sustainability Technology (FAST) research group. His research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology (OSAT) to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and to reduce poverty. His research spans areas of engineering of solar photovoltaic technology, open hardware, and distributed recycling and additive manufacturing (DRAM) using RepRap 3-D printing. He wrote the Open-Source Lab and Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects.
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Apologies -- I meant recently in the context of 3D printing as a whole -- which has been around for decades -- but only with the release of the RepRap project were OS options available-- the printers for the last 3 years in Make fall into that category.
A tip of the hat to the U.S. government. This is a really great start. As this is taxpayer money - shouldn't the logic take us to 100% open source for providing the largest possible value for our investment as code useful for government could be useful for small and large businesses, education, etc.?