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Hi, Stefan Merten wrote:
4 days ago Christian Siefkes wrote:But I would be careful about attaching a new prefix to old terms, since the old terms might not just give up their old meaning. There is a reason we talk about "presidents", not about "democratic kings".Therefore, I don't talk about "peer governance" in my book, but simply about "decision making and conflict resolution", since I think that these are the two aspects of governance that remain relevant in a peer context, while other aspects of governance-as-we-know-it-today no longer matter.But that's also true for production, isn't it? Or wouldn't you think that sweat shops - which are typical for some of today production processes - would vanish?
Yup. But let's look at the definitions of these terms (from dictionary.com): gov·ern·ance 1. government; exercise of authority; control. 2. a method or system of government or management. pro·duc·tion 1. the act of producing; creation; manufacture. ... pro·duce 1. to bring into existence; give rise to; cause. 2. to bring into existence by intellectual or creative ability. 3. to make or manufacture. ... I don't think that "government", "exercise of authority", or "control" are adequate terms for the decision making and conflict resolution processes we can observe in free software/free culture products, and even "management" sounds a bit far-fetched. On the other hand, the definitions of "produce" and "production" seem to fit quite well. That's why I would use these latter terms in a peer context, but not the former one. Best regards Christian -- |-------- Dr. Christian Siefkes --------- christian siefkes.net ---------- | Homepage: http://www.siefkes.net/ | Blog: http://www.keimform.de/ | Producto AG: http://www.testberichte.de/ | OpenPGP Key ID: 0x346452D8 |------------------------------------------------------------------------- I suggest that shareable goods are but one instance of a broader phenomenon outlined by the literature on social norms, social capital, and, most directly, common property regimes. Social production and exchange comprises a third system of production, a class of solutions to production problems that is separate from, and can complement or substitute for, the two more commonly studied systems: markets--through both the price system and the firm--and the state. -- Yochai Benkler, Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production
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