> government takes over an industry The coloured glasses that everyone wears these days is costing me karma... to hell with it. Please re-read my post. Open s

> government takes over an industry The coloured glasses that everyone wears these days is costing me karma... to hell with it. Please re-read my post. Open sourcing robot schematics and software has nothing to do with government taking over. It means that hackers everywhere will be able to study and improve said robots and maybe build a version of the factory in some poor place on the other side of the world or maybe on another planet. As far as finding the capital, building the things and running them - that's the responsibility of whoever wants to assume that risk, as always.