Purpose

This section is intended to freely give every individual all the necessary tools and education to produce and distribute your own equipment. Our corporate mission revolves around empowering individuals. We aim to create a network where people can share designs and ideas. By pairing this philosophy with in-home manufacturing, in the future, we aim to reduce scarcity of goods.

If you have not yet seen, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, it is a film about the detriments scarcity has on society. Check it out:

Linux: Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. a computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. The vision for Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available free of charge to everybody on the same terms, and funded through a portfolio of services provided by Canonical. Ubuntu holds an estimated global usage of more than 12 million desktop users, making it the most popular desktop Linux distribution with about 50% of Linux desktop marketshare.

Octave

GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is built to look like MATLAB, and the only difference is how it handles strings (MATLAB uses single quotes and Octave uses double quotes).

Here's a movie about the evolution of the Linux operating system:

Open Office

A multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, free to download, use, and distribute.

GIMP

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.

VLC Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

Drop Box

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

µTorrent

µTorrent is a lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows or Mac with many features.

Khan Academy

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

A directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly publications.

Open Access Textbooks

The Open Access Textbooks Project is a two-year initiative to create a sustainable model for the discovery, production, and dissemination of open textbooks.

Public Library of Science

Advocates the free distribution of science and medical published articles.

Video at MIT

The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world.

RepRap

RepRap is a desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap can print those parts, RepRap is a self-replicating machine - one that anyone can build given time and materials. RepRap's software is free, and the parts that it cannot self-replicate are available as relatively inexpensive kits.