[ox-en] Slides for P2P workshop
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:35:45 +0100
Hi list!
Though this is too late to receive feedback here are the slides I'm
going to present on a little, nice workshop on P2P
[http://www.ntu.ac.uk/p2pworkshop2007/]. Unfortunately it's a closed
workshop otherwise I had advertised it here.
Grüße
Stefan
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Free Software: The most mature P2P economy
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:author: Stefan Merten
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Oekonux key concepts
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Characteristics of Free Software
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* The actual product is gratis
Gratis is not crucial but points to the mode of production
* Source code is available
* Four basic rights for the users
* Software may be used for any purpose
* The sources may be studied and changed
* The software may be distributed arbitrarily
* Changed versions may be distributed arbitrarily
* Licenses embed these rights in the law system
As we'll see: Such embedding is important
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Free in the sense of freedom
Mode of production
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* Without money
That's why price is zero
* Effort is taken on a voluntary basis
* Necessity of concrete solutions to problems
* Selbstentfaltung of the developers
* Manifold self-organized in small, independent groups
* International in the Internet
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Often a high quality results
Selbstentfaltung
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* More than self-realization
* Do what you like but not as an atomized individual
* Selbstentfaltung is "autonomy-in-interdependence"
* Dependency is not reduction but extension of own possibilities
* Selbstentfaltung ends up in higher quality
* Because desire for quality is expression of Selbstentfaltung
And this means absolute quality - not only relative
* Possible only without alienation
.. admonition:: Conclusion
In general Selbstentfaltung is a desirable goal
Germ form and five-step
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* Germ form is something structural new existing in the old
* Germ forms develop in a five-step
* Formation of the germ form
* Crisis of the old form
* Germ form becomes an important dimension of development in the old
form
This is where embedding through licenses becomes imporant
* Germ form becomes dominant
* Restructuring of the over all process
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Free Software is in third step
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Signs of maturity
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Free Software history
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When talking of maturity, history is an important aspect
* Early 1980's: Richard M. Stallmann coins "Free Software"
* Ideological background
* GNU General Public License
*The* Free Software license
* Early 1990's: Linus Torvalds starts Linux
* "Bazaar" model opened up the development
* Pragmatism
* Late 1990's: Eric S. Raymond coins "Open Source"
* Marketing campaign
* Free Software gained public visibility
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Took 30 years to really take off
Free Software as an economy
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* Wikipedia (2007-10-03):
An economy is the system of human activities related to the production, distribution,
exchange, and consumption of goods and services of a country or other area.
* "System": (Network of) Free Software projects
* "Human activities": Made by humans
* "Production": Based on a production process
* "Distribution": Through the Internet
* "Exchange": Not exchange but a flow of goods
* "Consumption": By consumers as well as producers
* "Goods and services": Software and support
* "Country or other area": Global
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Free Software certainly is an economy
Success in the old form
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* Free Software is superior to proprietary software
* Otherwise industry would not use it
* Important: Quality - not ideological reasons
* Wide and still rising distribution
* Final frontier: the desktop
*You* can switch to Free Software today!
* Similar to upcoming capitalism
Capitalism also started in niches where it was superior
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Success in the old form is key for maturity
Beyond old relationships
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* Beyond commodities
* Absence of scarcity
* Beyond gifts
* No social relationships between producers and consumers
* Beyond classical public goods
* Not state based
* Beyond labor
* Replaced by Selbstentfaltung
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Establishing new relationships is key for sustainability
Beyond old ownership
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* Inclusive ownership model
* Traditional ownership: Right to exclude
* Beyond exchange
* You may take without giving
* Beyond alienation
* Product is oriented in use value
* Selbstentfaltung is the anti-thesis of alienation
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Establishing new notion of ownership changed history
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.. admonition:: Conclusion
Sublation on higher level
.. to sublate: to negate or eliminate (as an element in a dialectic
process) but preserve as a partial element in a synthesis
.. Better than abolition / overcoming
At several forefronts
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* Social relationships
* Maintainership
* Loose binding of people
* Orientation on projects instead of organization
* Openness
* Technical development
* Globalization
* Mode of production based on Selbstentfaltung
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Sublating the old happens at the forefronts of development
Free in the sense of Free Software
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* Freedom is result of the process
* Results are Free because of the process
Can be used by anyone who needs them
Implies that they are available without payment
* I.e. unlimited externally
* Freedom is pre-condition of the process
* The process doesn't work without Freedom
Freedom enables contributions from all sides
* I.e. unlimited internally
* One's Freedom enables the Freedom of others
Instead of limiting it like in abstract freedom
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Those positive feedback cycles create sustainability
This is where the power comes from
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