Technology Secrecy and Manufacturing Concentration
November 13, 2021
Political and military secrets and technical capability serve different public purposes. Brian Greenforest argues for protecting genuine national-security information while opening the engineering knowledge that lets humanity build, repair, manufacture, and respond to planetary challenges.
Technology grows through structured access, education, and reuse, and open-source businesses show that openness can generate durable commercial value.
Organize the Body of Human Technical Knowledge
Process recipes, device physics, equipment design, software, metrology, manufacturing practice, and maintenance knowledge become more valuable when people can find, understand, and improve them.
Concentrating essential semiconductor capability in a handful of institutions creates fragility. Open technical education can grow the talent and infrastructure that a resilient manufacturing network needs.
Build Profitable Systems Around Openness
Red Hat demonstrated that companies can sell support, integration, certification, and trusted delivery around open source. Hardware companies can create similar value through tools, services, quality systems, fabrication, and product execution.
Technology leaders can separate legitimate operational confidentiality from blanket technical secrecy. Open the knowledge that expands human capability and compete through the excellence of what the organization delivers.
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I deeply despise the leaks Assange and Snowden did. National security of any country is the business of the country, not public. You don't share where your dad keeps his gun, why do you think it's okay to share where your generals keep their nukes?
But at the same time, why nobody leaks technology secrets to public? Technology is the thing which makes us human. Technology is the only thing which can save the planet. Technology is the most complex thing in the world. We must #share. We must #organize. We must structure and make open access to the entire body of human knowledge available.
Our sense of insecurity and intellectual property rights old-school 1800s protection HABITS made only TSMC capable of making the bleeding edge chips. In Taiwan, not in the United States. Following best practices on TOP SECRET information access management.
I love Capitalism. I hate secrets. Red Hat has shown that you can make profits on open source. Now Apple's time to catch up. Technology should not be secret, only politics. Keep management secrets, not tech.
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