What Can Be Open Sourced?

I’m sure most of you are aware of open sourced software.  The creators of the Xtracycle (a long-framed bicycle designed for carrying cargo) have open sourced their design. Electronics have been open sourced, as with Arduino.

Food recipes might as well be considered open source – have you ever met someone who hasn’t tweaked a recipe and/or passed it on?

My buddy Chuck Goolsbee makes biodiesel based on the Appleseed reactor.

What else can be open sourced? Probably not something as pedantic as a belt buckle, but what about house plans? Or DIY solar energy projects?

Leave a comment to let me know what you think.