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*The [[Open Sector]] involves infrastructures. If infrastructures involve the physical world, they are expensive. | *The [[Open Sector]] involves infrastructures. If infrastructures involve the physical world, they are expensive. | ||
*This is part of why open source software succeeded, and open hardware didn't: it is expensive to create open source hardware infrastructure, whereas it is free to create open source software infrastructures. OSS infrastructure means compilers, programmer time, CPUs, electrons. All are approaching zero marginal cost including programming time, becuase once programmed, a program enters the public domain thus it's cost is zero (it must be developed only once). This metaphor must be understood in order to translate zero marginal cost to hardware. | *This is part of why open source software succeeded, and open hardware didn't: it is expensive to create open source hardware infrastructure, whereas it is free to create open source software infrastructures. OSS infrastructure means compilers, programmer time, CPUs, electrons. All are approaching zero marginal cost including programming time, becuase once programmed, a program enters the public domain thus it's cost is zero (it must be developed only once). This metaphor must be understood in order to translate zero marginal cost to hardware. | ||
*OSH open sector is happening in tiny pieces. For example 3D printing, though it has far to go because materials or designs or machines aren't free or self-replicating yet. | |||
Revision as of 23:16, 30 August 2023
- The Open Sector involves infrastructures. If infrastructures involve the physical world, they are expensive.
- This is part of why open source software succeeded, and open hardware didn't: it is expensive to create open source hardware infrastructure, whereas it is free to create open source software infrastructures. OSS infrastructure means compilers, programmer time, CPUs, electrons. All are approaching zero marginal cost including programming time, becuase once programmed, a program enters the public domain thus it's cost is zero (it must be developed only once). This metaphor must be understood in order to translate zero marginal cost to hardware.
- OSH open sector is happening in tiny pieces. For example 3D printing, though it has far to go because materials or designs or machines aren't free or self-replicating yet.