Gundolf S. Freyermuth shows in his article Offene Geheimnisse - Die Ausbildung der Open-Source-Praxis im 20. Jahrhundert in the Open Source Jahrbuch 2007 (German only) how "open source practise is one of the main forces driving the industrial to the digital civilisation".

He describes six innovations of the open source software movement which may be assigned to the production of physical goods:

1. Gaining (back) the knowledge about technologies monopolized by corporates of the industrial age.
2. Striving after compatibility and standards. This needs to be adressed to build globally open source goods based on highly available standard components.
3. Cooperation based on hirarchy free communication via Internet.
4. Public ownership of intelectual property.
5. Self organised organisations.
6. A new understanding of competition and collaboration in order to accelerate und improve creative work and development processes.

You can find all this points explained in more detail in the freely available Open Source Jahrbuch.