TANGENT ALERT:

From this month's Fast Company: Open source car... what could this mean for the automobile? Who knows, but when you think about the paradigm of the automobile, other than incremental changes in technology and safety advances, cars are pretty much what they have been for decades. For the most part they have 4 wheels (the front two turn), a combustion engine, rack and pinion steering, disk and/or drum breaks and mechanical systems for acceleration, breaking and steering.

What kind of innovation would occur if you had a couple thousand designers working on a car design rather than a few dozen? What if these designer were both industry insiders and people who simply have a passion for cars? Chaos? Maybe, but it works pretty well for software. It's almost Darwinian, in that the best ideas survive the scrutiny of brother and sister contributors. The ideas have a better chance of surviving based on the merit of their worth. So, OScar, I'll be rooting for you.