The Blockchain is the Foundation For an Open-Source World
What is Linux?
When I was younger I was first introduced to Linux through a little game called Counter-Strike. All of the good servers were hosted on Linux with the little penguin.
I found out Linux was much more stable, bug-free, and virus-free compared to other operating systems. I found out the reason many people use Linux servers is that you can leave them on for months at a time without ever having to restart them! I would always think to myself: what is this Linux and why aren't more people using it?
There are many many different versions of Linux. This is an operating system that has forked over and over and over again. Each version get's tweaked a little bit to provide a subset of functionality. Remind you anything? Blockchain technology is exactly the same.
Software isn't the only thing that can be open-source. Any intellectual property that is given away freely to society can be viewed as open source. My favorite open source project (besides The Blockchain) is open-source Ecology.
They strive to make the blueprints for creating your own decentralized village available to the entire world. They're working on opensource brick-makers, tractors, cars, 3D-printers, 3D-scanners, housing, irrigation, bread-maker, etc. This is a project that can truly change the world if it goes viral. So why isn't it?
Money and Greed ruin everything.
The main reason open-source technology can't get off the ground is because it is very hard to monetize. People need money to live their lives. There are a lot of individuals out there that would love to be a part of the open-source revolution if they didn't have to take a pay-cut. This is why projects like Linux are superior when it comes to low level functionality, but extremely lacking when it comes to keeping up with the big boys and their billions of dollars. These projects simply don't have to capital, manpower, and leadership to reach critical mass.
Open-Source business models are about to explode.
How is The Blockchain different from other open source projects? Cryptocurrency is money. Never again will open source projects have to worry about where the money is going to come from. They will either create their own or piggyback onto an already existing chain.
Projects like @utopian-io are going to pull this dream into reality very soon. Once people can quit their jobs and get paid to open source they're going to be on it like white on rice. 2018 is our year. We have the chance to turn the next economic recession of this broken dept-based economy into the foundation of a brave new world. Everyone can get paid to cooperate instead of engaging in wasteful competition. Keep an open mind and be prepared for the future.
The only issue with @utopian-io are those greedy people that ruin everything. There are lot of contributions that aren't really worth a lot to the overall development of a project that can overshadow actual software development, bug fixes, architecture issues, etc. You know, the important stuff. But I think if they can figure that out, their model certainly has the potential to change open-source software and the software industry as a whole because control shifts from the corporations to the individuals and software communities.
Utopian-io is just a fledgling example of where this is all going. It blows my mind that a superior hacker blockchain hasn't popped up yet.
Once we have an open source software development blockchain with a rock solid hierarchy of leadership we'll be set. The leaders of such a blockchain would be responsible for figuring out what needs to be done and how to get it done.
Every piece of a project would be broken up into sections that could be programmed by a single person. Then you put bounties on each piece so developers know how much crypto they'll get if they accomplish a task. On a chain like Steem bounties like this could keep getting upvoted over time until the value is high enough for someone to take on the work. Then you'd probably want a different person to come in and test/review it for a share of crypto as well.
I know if I was in charge of such a blockchain my first focus would obviously be maintaining and upgrading the blockchain. My second focus would probably be Linux. Tertiary priorities would be my personal projects (small games and apps and such).
In the end it really comes down to: How do you know if someone is worthy of having power over blockchain inflation. Proof-of-Work says computing power. Proof-of-stake says investment in the blockchain. What I aim toward is Proof-of-Trust, a system that doesn't even exist yet. This is a generic idea. Every blockchain would have different rules determining if their users were trustworthy or not. On on a software development blockchain it would likely have a lot to do with how much you've contributed, how much those contributions have helped the blockchain, and how little bugs there were in the code you wrote. On Steem it would be split into three sections: creating content, curating content, and judging content.
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Tha blockchain technology start and will cintinue to change this world
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