The rise of the open-source engineering design:

There’s one final piece to every successful transition — the open-source community.

The open-source community helps proliferate innovation, invention and education throughout an industry. Without open-source, we would not have Linux, Android, most cloud technologies, and hundreds of thousands of games. Without video tutorials and content, there would be a fraction of the number of self-taught engineers. In these industries, most new projects today (both hobbyist and enterprise) are built using open-source technologies and Engineering Design will be no different.

The industry is always responsible for products and services, but often the open-source community invents, shares and standardises the core infrastructure we all build on.