The FOSS way...

With time, I've come to become even more sure that free and open-source software(FOSS) is the way to go. Not only that, but some aspects how FOSS is developed could bring enormous benefits to humanity at large if there where replicated in other areas.

One such example is open science, that promotes scientific development could have great positive impact for everyone not only the scientists who work on the research.

Letting people coming together to work openly, and enable them to share their work freely, can help their work have the best possible impact in the widest possible way. Most importantly, since they'll be working in the open it will make it harder to make bad uses anything done this way.

Not all bad use can be prevented, but it will be harder to pull and it would be easier to hold accountable those who act wrongfully.

It's easier to audit things when they are done openly, than when they are done behind closed doors. Most importantly, when you use things that you can actually see how they are made, you don't have to just trust what you are being told. You can actually go, and verify that you are getting what you where promised without encountering road blocks that prevent you from actually knowing the process.

Working on the model that FOSS proposes, enables people work in a way that people naturally tend to do anyway. While there some aspects that can be kept secret, the generalities can be made public so that other can use, study and modify them in a way that's beneficial to all.

As demonstrated time and time again, people will get to the core of how something works and will share that information with others. By allowing them to do that freely, with some reasonable limitations, everyone can benefit from their work.

If we want to really bring people together, and do it for the good of all, we need to give people the proper incentives to do so. The current model only serves to divide, and creates a level of distrust that doesn't benefit anyone on the long run.

Something needs to give, and what must give is the model on which people work.