What Open Collaboration Is and Isn't

Is

• Common hardware tools
• Tools must thus be open source
• To be scalable, it must be modular
• To work for everyone, it must be inclusive.
• To be transformative - it must achieve that which is otherwise impossible with limited collaboration
• OSHWA/OSI compliant
• Distributive - ultimately in the Gini Coefficient
• Next step in the evolution of capitalism and socialism
• Intrinsically motivated
• Inclusive - includes nature, people
• Transparent - open to study and learning - unleashed learning so more can be learned in less time.

Is Not

• Fake Open Source
• Proprietary consortium, coop, Peer Production License
• Collapsitarian - a serious case for abundance can be made
• Crowdsourced Prioritization - typical public incentive challenges that privatize their results
• Extrinsic motivation - the process must be wholesome