Open Source Technology
Description of Open Source:
|| Nowadays, the patent wars have heated up further & tech companies conflict on breaching the patents.
The conflicts between Apple, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Google, Nokia, Microsoft …..
Such these behaviors are against tech developments & monopolist is reducer for science & tech progresses but here only valuable thing is more profit.
These types of strict rules that makes a monopoly for producer Reduce competition between companies.
But Reducing restrictions of copyright & patents can makes a Competitive environment for all producers & developers & increases the Speed of Scientific Advancement. It’s the best solution for accelerate to tech progresses.
It’s the Open Source…
In production and development, open source is a pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to results of produces and researches also information resources in different subjects.
Nowadays, “open source” phrase almost used in subjects related to computers and software but public sharing of information doesn’t limited to time and subject causes the concept of free sharing of technological information existed long before computers. For example, cooking recipes have been shared since the beginning of human culture!
XLeader of open source products in Software (OS) is the Unix-like operating systemX.
Many success cases have made and developed quickly based on open source code, for example: Unix, Linux, Android, Ubuntu, Open-Indiana, FreeBSD, Chromium OS, Mac OS X, Firefox... are same family and derived from together.
One of the largest achievements of open standards is Internet. Researchers can access to Advanced Researches Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) used a process called Request for Comments to develop telecommunication network protocols. This collaborative process of the 1960s led to the birth of the Internet in 1969.
Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source codes. Opening the source codes enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities
Early instances of the free sharing of source code include IBM's source releases of its operating systems and other programs in the 1950s and 1960s, and the SHARE user group that formed to facilitate the exchange of software.
Most economists agree that open-source candidates have an information good aspect! In general, this suggests that the original work involves a great deal of time, money, and effort. However, the cost of reproducing the work is very low, so that additional users may be added at zero or near zero cost – this is referred to as the marginal cost of a product. Copyright creates a monopoly so the price charged to consumers can be significantly higher than the marginal cost of production. This allows the producer to recoup the cost of making the original work, without needing to find a single customer that can bear the entire cost. Conventional copyright thus creates access costs for consumers who value the work more than the marginal cost but less than the initial production cost.
Being organized effectively as a consumers' cooperative, the idea of open source is to reduce the access costs of the consumer and the creators of derivative works by reducing the restrictions of copyright. Basic economic theory predicts that lower costs would lead to higher consumption and also more frequent creation of derivative works.
However, others argue that because consumers do not pay for the copies, creators are unable to recoup the initial cost of production, and thus have no economic incentive to create in the first place. By this argument, consumers would lose out because some of the goods they would otherwise purchase would not be available at all. In practice, content producers can choose whether to adopt a proprietary license and charge for copies, or an open license. Some goods which require large amounts of professional research and development, such as the pharmaceutical industry (which depends largely on patents, not copyright for intellectual property protection) are almost exclusively proprietary.
A report by the coup Standish Group states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers.
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We must try to improve our technology and it means after money companies should work together to invent new tech and develop more devices. But companies just think about money and exclusive tech.
However if they work together it will have money for all of them. But they are fighting!
- How can you invent?
Maybe we can check it by two ways;
Humans need to some device then create it.
Humans observe new creative device and then invent new device with better performance.
So it s not scientific thought to ban each others because of new innovations!
If there s just one different parameter in new devices.
1 comment:
I can't wait to see when patent court cases begin to be rejected because they are about topics of common knowledge!
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