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[ox-en] Cooperation modes (was: Re: Business opportuities based on Free Software)



Hi Franz!

Last month (45 days ago) Franz Nahrada wrote:
By the way it is exactly this what I am missing in the Oekonux community.
Neither is there a newsletter providing us with the weekly or mothly
insight about the latest developments in FreeModes, as I use to call our
new modes of production, neither there is emphasis on cherishing and
expanding the initial work done by Stefan Merten in terms of mirroring the
"image at large" of Free Production in all spheres of human activity.

What stops you from doing this?

For example, I wonder if the most important argument of my Rome speech is
accepted:

I claimed that there are basically three different modes of - yes, call it
peer production (not p2p) for a moment:

You concluded the description of these modes with:

The interesting thing is that this three modes are pretty separated, but
there is a "hidden continuum" structurally connecting them, they become
"mutual enablers".

I don't think they are separated. In Free Software they all work
together. Let me explain.

1. The classical "prosumer mode", in which everybody is working basically
for themselves in using and customizing productive abilities created or
reinforced by industrial products that enable people do use "embodied
potentials" of information and automation.

This is what people do when they pick a piece of Free Software and
configure or even change it to suit *their* needs. Under the GPL
unless you give away the modified product there is no need to share
this with anyone so it is only a private effort.

BTW: How would you consider configuration of a product? Configuration
needs to be supported by the basic design but can change the behavior
of a product greatly. Is configuring prosuming already?

2. The "swarm mode" in which people are loosely aggregated in doing
things, either for themselves (ebay,musicsharing) or for an external task
that uses the "least effort" way (Seti home and successors)

Again that is how I'd describe Free Software projects as they
collaborate with each other. The Free Software projects are
independent of each other but if you look at big software families
like KDE or Gnome or classic GNU software then I think the projects
can be described well as a swarm.

Ahm, what is a swarm after all? I think it's best described as
entities which act on local intelligence with no overarching control
entity.

3. The "community mode", in which the team up in new forms of voluntary
social organisation. (classical example Free Software).

That is probably how the internal structure of Free Software project
can be described. May be it's important to emphasize that these forms
are not only voluntary but also informal.


						Mit Freien Grüßen

						Stefan

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