Olimex made it: the open source laptop

Olimex presented the first open source laptop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Nexedi expects to port NayuOS to this new platform as soon as it is released.
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Olimex, a Bulgarian IT company focusing mainly on hardware design has released what is maybe the first open source laptop during TuxCon2016. It may be a first step towards a version of NayusOS than runs on a fully open source hardware. Let us support them by purchasing their laptop as soon as it is available. Incidentally, Olimex also produces open source boards for industrial computing.

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  • Jean-Paul Smets
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  • Jean-Paul Smets is the founder and CEO of Nexedi. After graduating in mathematics and computer science at ENS (Paris), he started his career as a civil servant at the French Ministry of Economy. He then left government to start a small company called “Nexedi” where he developed his first Free Software, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) designed to manage the production of swimsuits in the not-so-warm but friendly north of France. ERP5 was born. In parallel, he led with Hartmut Pilch (FFII) the successful campaign to protect software innovation against the dangers of software patents. The campaign eventually succeeeded by rallying more than 100.000 supporters and thousands of CEOs of European software companies (both open source and proprietary). The Proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions was rejected on 6 July 2005 by the European Parliament by an overwhelming majority of 648 to 14 votes, showing how small companies can together in Europe defeat the powerful lobbying of large corporations. Since then, he has helped Nexedi to grow either organically or by investing in new ventures led by bright entrepreneurs.
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  • sven (dot) franck (at) nexedi (dot) com