The concept of free Open hardware design is not targeted only for students. This concept will also be targeted to business projects and it will help companies to increase their profit. Increase the reliability of the final product.
Open designs can be more reliable than non-open designs.
This is because many designers can verify, debug, test and improve it. These designers can be in different places and look at the design from different point of views regarding their needs. Open designs will have the best support in the current world of Internet. Since the design is open and available for everyone, number of experts in it will be very large. As a result, there will be many designers that can offer support instead of the traditional commercial way.