January 2015

OSE's goal is to create the open source economy. To get there, OSE is designing and building critical production machines - the Global Village Construction Set. As of January 2015, the OSE community has built a total of about 100 machines around the world. See Replication.

The dust has settled as of the 2011 TED Talk.

At this time, viral replication has not yet happened. It may perhaps be said that in the world of open source hardware, no single project has yet emerged that has shown a transformation of some sector of the economy. The closest is the 3D printer, RepRap - driven by a large open source community.