Nanomi: Source-Available Transmission Electron Microscope
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The NanoMi project releases source-available code for a transmission electron microscope, sparking debate about the project's openness and the implications of 'source-available' vs 'open-source' labeling.
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They really shouldn't be calling it an open-source anything.
Nanographs, a company out of Portland, is probably a better source of open microscope information (https://www.nanographs.io/).
(we changed 'open source' to 'source available' in the title above)
Does “open source” have a different meaning in Canadian?
This appears to be F tier legal fuckery, not open source at all.
Changing the HN headline to soften the project's own bombastic claim isn't really the point of the argument. It would bhe better to highlight any project that is actually working on open source microscopy of which there are many. Flagged