Webinos - Open Sourcing the Internet of Things

BBC on Webinos (Webinos is open source Web Operating System technology designed to run on PCs and Android-operated mobile handsets - see Webinos.org)

More than 5,400 developers have downloaded a new open-source operating system designed to enable digital devices to communicate with each other. They are now looking at ways in which Webinos could be used to connect a range of devices such as mobile phones, car stereos, heart monitors and TVs. Webinos is a 15m euro ($18.4m; £11.8m) project supported by more than 30 organisations, including the EU.

So far people in 155 countries have accessed the Webinos website. "People want to control the technology because if you control the technology you control the money," he said. "But it should be free and open to everybody. "Where we are operating is trying to build the open-source community. That's how web browsers started."

Just as the Internet needed open standards to develop to its fullest potential, the Internet of Things (IOT) does too. Right now all the major players are attempting to build walled garden solutions that won't interoperate. Its the same old same old. The other same old lesson is that it always limits innovatio (and quite often an openly available system breaks the walls0

I don't know if this will be the Mosaic of the IOT, but let us hope something will.....