Production Commons

Description

Concept proposed by Marcin Jakubowski:

" It is essentially an organized effort for open engineering and product R&D for the public interest, and it is applicable to any product within the current industrial system. The basic business model is:

1. People volunteer time and resources to develop products 2. Production facilities are built and donated into the production commons 3. A product is made available at the cost of production

We are simply eliminating the development, intellectual property, capitalization, overhead, competitive waste, and other costs- to create a novel way to produce physical goods. This is identical to the open source software model in terms of sharing development costs, except we added physical production into the mix."