Re: Free Software is not a gift (was: [ox-en] Oekonux introduction)
- From: Michael Bouwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:21:47 -0700 (PDT)
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Agreed,
I was rather thinking of peer production in general, and the obligations generated by agreeing to work together ...
The legal rules are supplemented by unspoken social norms,
Michel
magius <gmagius gmail.com> wrote: 2006/10/21, Michael Bouwens :
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that it only creates voluntary moral
obligations?
Imho it's not a moral obligation. If you're a coder and you'll use a
piece of software released under GNU/GPL to build your product, you're
OBLIGED to release the new product under the same license. If you
doesnt do that, your violation can be prosecuted by law. So GNU/GPL
imho is a sort of voluntary "Constitution" that creates the Digital
Commons, affirming that is not possible to privatize the shared work
(no alieniation, in marxist terms)..
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