The most promising strategy I've come across to address this mystery of how to sustainably fund open source (or how I would put it: how do we create goods that are held in common, goods without capitalist restrictions/gatekeeping mechanisms?), is the rapid conversion of the entire world's economy into a Holo-REA/hREA-run ecosystem and network. Holo-REA/hREA is a community project backed by diverse group of new-economy builders (Valueflo.ws, Mikorizal.org, Sensorica and others). It is a system built using the novel holochain framework (a distributed integrity engine) and will allow us to stigmergically measure the flows of material resources flowing through our communities, and the world, in exactly the same way as it is being carefully measured and managed today, which is: behind the firewalls of big companies, using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems/software.

The new Holo-REA/hREA system allows us to reveal the complex web of relationships behind all material resources that we use in our daily lives (when I say 'resources', it can be anything from raw materials to finished products - in this system every input and every output is a resource). This would mean we have high quality information that helps us to see and steward our delicate exchange/dance with mother earth's ecosystem (an ongoing balancing act).

I'm excited to be closely following this project that aims to grow an open, radically low barrier-to-participate, low barrier-to-entry, encrypted, peer-to-peer version of today's ERP system; what Bob Haugen and Lynn Foster and others call 'Network Resource Planning (NRP) software'.

I hope that this new system will help us to start to recognize all the capitalist gatekeeping of knowledge and science that is going on today, that excludes and keeps most of humanity from accessing their shared inheritance. Digital tech has given us new tools with near-zero marginal cost of reproduction, storage and transmission of information, so we can stop making it artificially scarce. In other words: the new system could help us see more clearly how we are uselessly competing - to monopolize/'own'/turn into '(intellectual) property'- the latest science and innovation (as is done today through trade secrets, patents, copyrights), which, let's be real, really belongs to all children, not just the children of white, global north, capitalist parents.

Through the use of this new system we will also be able to put an end to ecocide, which is currently being committed through: the privatization of land and the subsequent destruction of natural ecosystems, leading to deforestation, groundwater contamination and poisoning, etc; the creation of e-waste due to planned obsolescent, non-repairable black-box tech, as well as the human rights abuses when producing 21st century capitalist commodities (which has lead to catastrophes like Rana Plaza and the 'Playstation War' in Congo), to name two of the major themes of the past few decades.

So yes, we, the working class, can now finally set (scientific) knowledge/technology free; empowering all of mother earth's children.