Open Source Software and Hardware | Knowledge Transfer

The cornerstone of the "Open Source" philosophy is that recipients of technology should have access to all its building blocks, such as software code, schematics for electronics, mechanical designs, to study it, modify it, and redistribute it to others. Ever since releasing the WWW software under an open source model in 1994, CERN has continuously been a pioneer in this field: open source hardware (with the CERN Open Hardware Licence), Open Access (with the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics - SCOAP3) and Open Data (Open Data Portal for the LHC experiments).