<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I think you need to be more specific on that “etc” to get good numbers. For example, is energy hardware or software? Because it’s pretty big.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:37 PM, Marcin Jakubowski <<a href="mailto:marcin@opensourceecology.org" class="">marcin@opensourceecology.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Friends,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I'm researching the size of the hardware vs software economy. What is the latest on the size of the hardware economy (materials, housing, industry, ag etc) compared to the information economy (software, information services, education, etc)?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I heard somewhere that the hardware economy is 80% of the economy. Can anyone point me to sources?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Thanks,<br class="">Marcin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><b style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Full Disclosure:</b><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> OSE works openly. All conversations in this email are intended to be transparent and subject to sharing, with due respect. OSE does not sign NDAs in order to promote collaboration. All of our work is libre or open source. If you are discussing potential development collaboration, your work must also be open source pursuant to the Open Source Hardware Association </span><a href="http://www.oshwa.org/definition/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank" class="">definition</a><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">. </span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See Global Village Construction Set <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski" target="_blank" class="">TED Talk</a>. See latest build of <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/622508883/open-building-institute-eco-building-toolkit/posts/1750160" target="_blank" class="">Seed Eco-Home</a>. Subscribe as a <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/community/#truefans" target="_blank" class="">True Fan</a>. <span style="font-size:13px" class="">See </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceEcology" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">Facebook</a><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial" class=""> for updates</span><span style="font-size:13px" class="">. Subscribe to monthly update <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSEmail" target="_blank" class="">OSEmail</a>. Donate to our <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Other_donation_options" target="_blank" class="">501(c)3</a>.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" class="">Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" class="">Executive Director</span><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" class="">Open Source Ecology</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" class=""><a href="http://opensourceecology.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">http://opensourceecology.org</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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