> if you don’t have the know how to make the tools that make the tools it’s difficult to impossible to literally copy it.
Smart and knowledgable people in a certain field, but who are slightly stuck, can be helped by a few tiny details. If someone can provide a specific manual or piece of documentation, or just a photo copy or image of some key detail then those smart and knowledgable people can pass the hurdle and continue.
Exactly, and now days you can buy most tools you would need on ebay. Need a huge cnc milling machine? Ebay, Need an injection molding machine? Packaging equipment, whatever. Even medical equipment
Smart and knowledgable people in a certain field, but who are slightly stuck, can be helped by a few tiny details. If someone can provide a specific manual or piece of documentation, or just a photo copy or image of some key detail then those smart and knowledgable people can pass the hurdle and continue.