I'm reading this with some interest, as this is what my company and I do too! http://cncdata.co.uk http://cncdata.co.uk what you have written here is almost sca

I'm reading this with some interest, as this is what my company and I do too! http://cncdata.co.uk http://cncdata.co.uk what you have written here is almost scary like reading my own words. To answer your original post, my opinion is in Industry & digital factory, for it to succeed we must look to whats come before in software. It's inevitable long term that protecting the unique knowledge we have is not the model of success for the industry, hasn't it always been this way? Sure we can make good money but overall does industry win? We're about to open source everything we do, that's a Web API for Machine Data, MES, Quality systems and all of our Machine connectors, OPC/UA and Propriety. check out http://openindustry.org http://openindustry.org