As you would have probably noticed, the open hardware industry is gaining traction and relevant opportunities are showing up.
An evident trend shows that open hardware is relevantly gaining importance into the professional and business realm and thanks to a growing cross-fertilization between the different customer segments of professionals and consumers (as, increasingly, hobbyist also held a relevant role in industry related ventures) we can reasonably expect a growing penetration of the open hardware concepts in the overall hardware industry.
Well, this is a very good news and a lot of different opportunities are showing up for makers and the community around them: the impression in that all this landscape just shown a little of its disruption potential.