On the other hand the incentive for people to innovate and make it accessible to anyone is often money. The criticism of capitalism is warranted, however the supposedly bad capitalist IP system is also the reason for innovation and cooperation.
Nowadays almost all new programming languages are open-source, and *nix OS softwares have won the cultural battle over Windows in the devops community.
> the supposedly bad capitalist IP system is also the reason for innovation and cooperation
For me this is as much a myth as the good old "the wealth trickles down from the rich to the poor"
Citation needed.
I like open source software, but let's just say often you don't want OSS community to design an interface or maintain it.
Inkscape is on one hand a great tool, on the other hand, it just bogs down doing routine things like zoom or rotate canvas.
Anyone can (and has) form a commune in the US, too. There's nothing to stop you.
P.S. the assembly line (invented in a free market country) is not about rapid prototyping. Prototypes are not built on an assembly line.
Maybe monetary incentives are important for innovation. And I don't think it's perfect at all, but abolishing it also seems a bit rich.
> Nowadays almost all new programming languages are open-source, and *nix OS softwares have won the cultural battle over Windows in the devops community.
What does that proof? You can't pretend that this would work universally.
Excluding airplanes, jet engines, rockets, transistors, git, etc.
The Langley prototype fell into the Potomac like a sack of wet cement, and cost 20 times in government funding what the Wrights spent on their entire R+D program. Langley clearly had not solved any of the problems necessary for controlled, powered flight.