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• Open Source Hardware and Open Source Product Development (OSPD) may only gain a significant audience and ecosystem of participants if a 'Linux-like product'—defined as an essential infrastructure product that generates significant economic activity—emerges.
• Current practices in Open Source Hardware, Open Source Product Development (OSPD), and Open Design are primarily focused on early-stage design processes, such as prototyping and technology development, and on distributed, low-tech manufacturing.
• The process of developing open-source hardware in a community-based setting is also referred to as open design, open source development, or open source product development.
• The applicability of existing design process models to Open Source Product Development (OSPD) is uncertain because these models reflect 'orthodox' industrial practices that Open Design often challenges.
• In the context of the article, 'Open Design' is defined as a general field of practices involving either product or process openness, while 'OSPD' (Open Source Product Development) refers specifically to practices implying both product and process openness.
• OSPD projects contribute to an online corpus of product documentation and development activity traces, allowing for more extensive study of the phenomenon compared to other forms of Open Design.
• Open Source Hardware data provides an empirical anchor for studying Open Source Product Development (OSPD) practices, offering an alternative to speculative or programmatic research contributions in the Open Design literature.
• The authors of 'Seven observations and research questions about Open Design and Open Source Hardware' recommend six actions for research and policy to support Open Design and Open Source Product Development (OSPD): (i) encourage business involvement and industry-led open industrialization, (ii) clarify definitions through large-scale comparative studies, (iii) experiment with extreme openness, (iv) generate practical guidance for OSPD processes, (v) push standardization for both product and process openness, and (vi) consolidate the understanding of OSPD and Open Design as a socio-technical phenomenon.
• OSPD (Open Source Product Development) is the form of Open Design that deviates most from industrial mainstream practice, making it significant from a design science perspective.