Interesting. And there really is nothing stopping someone in control from getting themselves a huge portion of it, while laying off staff?

That seems like a huge flaw that someone with the required people skills (read, social engineering) can exploit.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Same question here. How can they be profitable if they are a registered non-profit?

Is it somehow possible to pay employees exorbitant salaries, similar to Mozilla’s CEO?

Billionaires remember! Yacht first, island second.

Well, designing and manufacturing are 2 different things.
You’re right as in we will still have to rely on some Workshop having a million dollar fabrication setup with at least half a dozen experts working, to do the manufacturing part.

Furthermore, said setup will have to be optimised not for scale (as in workshop mode and not assembly line mode), focusing on getting one-shot success rather than mass-manufacturing and getting yield %ages. So, we won’t really benefit from things like Intel opening up their fabs, since they still expect a bulk order.

We still always have FPGAs.
Just need one with an open source VHDL compiler.

Ooh, that would be hard.
Now you would have to make sure that the tattoo guy has enough time and drive to put the effort into understanding your custom chip design and know which probe to connect to which neuron.

I feel like if (the de-techification of general public doesn’t take place in the future) && (I were to be born in the future); then
I would probably giving free chip-design customisation services to friends and family, using some open source chip design as a base.

But then again, there’s already a very few number of ppl like me…

Physical pen testing

was it really pen testing or just pen…ing😏

I have a feeling that Surgeons will be made to sign contracts instructing them to refuse BYOC (bring/build your own chip) implants.

Otherwise, just make your own chip. You decide the materials, you decide the process. You decide each and every part (alright, maybe just as much as you can fathom) of the circuit.
You decide how powerful the feedback is and what functions it provides. So you are not paying for the risk of features other than the ones you want.

Because why just hack it as much as you need to when you can go all the way? AMIRITE?