[ox-en] Re: Your article "Innovation by User Communities: Learning From Open-Source Software"
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 23:55:38 +0200
Hi!
Today Eric von Hippel wrote:
Happy to have you do that. Article attached.
Thanks a lot. I read it while transcribing it from PDF and found it
indeed pretty interesting.
In the Oekonux discussion inspired by the principles of Free Software
we say that in this way of production the self-unfolding /
self-realization / freedom of each person is the prerequisite of the
self-unfolding / self-realization / freedom of all.
Or to put it the way I understood you: Only the revealing of one's
thoughts, one's code gives other the opportunity not only to use it
but to improve it further - which in the end is in the interest of
whole mankind *and* in the interest of the one who made the original
development.
Unfortunately nearly our stuff is German only, but if you're
interested you may have a look at a 2/3 translation of one of my
papers at
http://www.opentheory.org/gplsociety/v0001.phtml
In addition you may find Graham Seaman's "Free Hardware Design - Past,
Present, Future" paper at
http://www.oekonux-konferenz.de/dokumentation/texte/seaman.html
interesting, which discusses the early home-brewn computers existing
before the PC. He gave the talk at the first Oekonux-Konferenz held in
April this year.
Mit Freien Grüßen
Stefan
_______________________
http://www.oekonux.org/