http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/local-motors-the-first-open-source-car-to-hit-production/2010/02/01 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/local-motors-the-first-open-source-car-to-hit-production/2010/02/01/comment-page-1#comment-421634 Joe Rinehart Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:38:38 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=7121#comment-421634 While I hear Joel Johnson's point about the relative amounts of labor needed to produce each type of product it is surprising that he follows it up with the simplistic swipe about the only measure of success being "profit". Those types of critics have been fairly well debunked in the software P2P community, hopefully we won't have to debunk them all again in the manufacturing P2P revolution. Though it does raise the good point of needing to develop more signifigant sources of community based and patient capital. While I hear Joel Johnson’s point about the relative amounts of labor needed to produce each type of product it is surprising that he follows it up with the simplistic swipe about the only measure of success being “profit”. Those types of critics have been fairly well debunked in the software P2P community, hopefully we won’t have to debunk them all again in the manufacturing P2P revolution. Though it does raise the good point of needing to develop more signifigant sources of community based and patient capital.

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