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Patenting everything is so 2005. Companies like Facebook and Tesla Motors have followed the lead of open-source software, and now expose hardware designs possibly worth millions. 
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The company's Open Compute project has issued more hardware releases over the last couple of months.
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At the fifth annual summit of the Facebook-led Open Compute Project, Microsoft joined the movement, contributing its latest server designs.
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GigaOM: The Facebook-led Open Compute Project is set to vote on four new specifications that would make open source networking switches and OS software a reality in the near future.
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Facebook usually only enters the IT discussion in the context of corporate firewall policies, but last week things took a different turn after the internal innovations at the foundation of its digital empire hit the public domain. The contribution is the latest milestone in an effort tracing back to the dawn of hyperscale computing.
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Open hardware has already paid off for Facebook, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose appearance was somewhat of a surprise for the techies sitting in the front row of the conference hall. “In the last three years alone,” Zuckerberg said, “Facebook has saved more than $1 billion building out our infrastructure using Open Compute designs.” (You can watch his entire presentation on YouTube.) That was true in Facebook’s Prineville, Ore., datacenter – giving rise to an open style of hardware development that has since spread to Facebook’s datacenters in northern Europe and Asia/Pacific.
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Momentum continues to build behind Facebook's Open Compute Project, which welcomed a surprise new participant: Microsoft. By embracing open source hardware, Microsoft one-ups secretive Amazon. Read More
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Facebook's open hardware chief Frank Frankovsky on why it won't go back to traditional mass market servers and how open sourcing datacentre design is helping it build more efficient and reliable server farms.
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