Freedom, openness, sharing.
These were all part of the spirit of the internet, a spirit utterly unlike that of this world's cultivation community.
In truth, compared with other ancient, insular Dao Paths, the Puppet Dao was already at the forefront and could be considered advanced.
But from what Li Chen had seen, it still fell short. He wanted to take it a step further.
At the same time, he also realized that certain experiences and insights from Past-Life Earth were no universal cure, such as open-source licenses, patent systems, and safe harbor principles for search engines.
Open-source licenses had originally been intended to encourage the sharing of knowledge, and the existence of open-source communities had greatly promoted the development of the internet industry.
Yet many large companies still chose not to open-source their professional software, and certain open-source licenses with contagious provisions also gave individual developers pause.
Especially in this world, where Puppet Masters cultivated and advanced, the knowledge they possessed had an immense bearing on their personal survival, success, and failure. Much as with nations, many more secret arts could never be made public.
To encourage certain Puppet Masters to shift toward rune script development for the Array Dao, Li Chen stipulated that the vast majority of the Talisman Dao projects under his command be open-source, freely disclosing the relevant knowledge. He sought to establish a standardized, regulated industry benchmark that would guide the development of the entire Rune Script Dao.
At the same time, however, he also invested vast quantities of materials and money to make the work profitable for them.
Puppet Masters generally worked with both software and hardware. Assembling, modifying, and manufacturing the Mechanism Puppets of various parties involved different models and standards, with much of the work relying on individual labor. Blindly demanding contagious open-source