All and every technology should be open sourced, free to be modified by users to better suit their needs and redistributed. What's more, those new modifications need to be easily redistributed to others that find it appealing to their needs.
The need to have technology behave this way, is because we need to have the benefits of it to be as widespread as possible. There are far too many cases where the technology to save lives, or communities, existed but couldn't be used to do so because it was to expensive or there was no way to put it to work because it wasn't in the interest of who owned the technology.
Technology can't be captive by the interests of the few, and it's more powerful to improve people lives when it's freely available to be worked and redistributed without barriers that impede users to do so in an artificial way do to vested interest in avoiding it.
We could be progressing a lot faster if all technology was open to all to study and work on it, thus coming with improvements or specialized versions to be applied a lot faster where there are needed. And those versions could be made by those who need it, without having to depend on the original creator of a certain technology to take an interest to do so.
Those improvements should be allowed to be shared with any other person, or group, that needs it. Most importantly, it needs to be made available back to the originator.
What can be closed to other, are the processes on how a product is made. The technology is to be open, yet the process can have the option not be shared as long is not vital for society at large. It's important to make the distinction between the technology used to create something, and the processes used.
People naturally want to do things together, making all technology open to all to work on and share it means that it can advance even faster in ways that'll benefit more people. What we are set to win is offsets the possible downfalls of making technology open.
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