Open-source is the future, not just software, even genetic engineering, pharmaceutical, hardware, chipsets everything
Patenting has become very predatory and now is controlling the price of life-saving medicine.
watch this video to find out how bad the problem is.
The problem is so bad that people are dying from not being able to afford inflated prices of insulin, so https://openinsulin.org/ is trying to create opensource insulin which can be used by anyone without legal problems.
The same problem with hardware design and architecture, most PC and server industry is completely dependent on intel’s x86(i386) or x86_64(amd64), and technologies like Intel Management Engine - Wikipedia reduce privacy and security from both malicious party and govt censorship, It’s the wild west for three-letter agencies.
The only way to trust in the future is never by promise instead by self inspection, open-source should become the brand of reliability and security. The “security by obscurity” concept has been tried and failed. It is now an open-source idea to establish dominance.
Here’s an open hardware free from any restrictions