Schlagwort: peer-production

Capital(ism) for the Commons?

Michel Bauwens answered to the critique of Stefan Meretz on Peer Production License. Jakob Rigi from Hungary enters the debate commenting on both positions. They are documented in the following. My answer on both, Michel and Jakob, is using italics.

Michel Bauwens: Responding to Stefan Meretz’s critique of the Peer Production License

Stefan Meretz produced a critique of the Peer Production License, or more generically, Commons-Based Reciprocity Licenses, in the Keimform blog, to which I promised to respond.

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Socialist Licenses?

[Diesen Text gibt es auch auf deutsch]

[This text was also published at TripleC]

Michel Bauwens has made a proposal for a „median choice of socialist licenses“ which is based on the Copyfarleft-License of Dymtri Kleiner. In this post I try to critically analyze his proposal.

At the beginning Bauwens‘ thesis is: „the more communistic the sharing license we use, the more capitalistic the practice“. Being a prominent example the GNU GPL is called a „communist license“. Is there something in that?

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Sozialistische Lizenzen?

Michel Bauwens hat einen Vorschlag für einen „Mittelweg sozialistischer Lizenzen“ eingebracht, der im Kern auf der Copyfarleft-Lizenz von Dymtri Kleiner beruht (wie Christian Siefkes richtig erkannt hat). In diesem Beitrag versuche ich, den Vorschlag kritisch unter die Lupe zu nehmen.

Bauwens stellt zu Beginn eine These auf: „je kommunistischer die von uns benutzten Lizenzen sind, umso kapitalistischer ist die Praxis“. Als prominentes Beispiel wird die GNU GPL hierbei als „kommunistische Lizenz“ tituliert. Ist da was dran?

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Wie erreichen wir eine commons-orientierte Transformation?

[This text is also available in English]

Ein Vorschlag von Michel Bauwens (Übersetzung Stefan Meretz)

Heute haben wir die paradoxe Situation, dass, je kommunistischer die von uns benutzten Lizenzen sind, umso kapitalistischer ist die Praxis. So werden die Linux-Commons zu Konzern-Commons, die IBM und Co bereichern… In gewisser Weise funktioniert es, und für die meisten Entwickler_innen Freier Software scheint das auch akzeptabel zu sein, aber es ist der einzige Weg.

Deswegen hier eine Alternative, mit der wir nicht mehr nur die Wahl der nicht-reziproken kommunistischen Lizenzen wie der GPL haben, sondern einen Mittelweg sozialistischer Lizenzen einführen, die auf Reziprozität (Gegenseitigkeit) basieren.

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How do we achieve commons-oriented phase transition?

[Es gibt diesen Text auch auf deutsch (ab 9.2.)]

A proposal by Michel Bauwens

Today we have a paradox, the more communistic the sharing license we use, the more capitalistic the practice, with the Linux commons becoming a corporate commons enriching IBM and the like … It works in a certain way, and seems acceptable to most free software developers, but is it the only way.

Hence, an alternative, having the choice not just for non-reciprocal communist licenses such as the GPL, but introducing a median choice of socialist licenses, based on reciprocity.

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Open Source it Manual – Call for Collaboration

Open Source It Manual Button(Das Open Source it Manual gibt es auch auf deutsch)

Hello

my name is Lars. I am an artist and work a lot on open source hardware these days and for a while now. And I have a collaboration/feedback request.

Background: the owi project I work on is about „open source for an ecological economy“. The idea: informations about products have to be open to arrange a circular flow and waste free economy. So for this project I will have to convince people to open up their products. Thinking about that I discovered, that I would have to explain to them how to do that. And so I came up with the idea of a simple manual – an open source it manual – that could do the job and just publish it.

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Ten Theses on Open Source Economy

[Reposted from Elevate-Website]

by David Charles

Stefan Meretz strode onto the stage, eyes blazing, promising fire and brimstone. Channelling the revolutionary power of his medieval countryman, Martin Luther, Stefan proceeded to nail his iconoclastic theses to the door of the Elevate church.

Except that he was using PowerPoint*. And there were only ten. And they were all in German and all about the economy of which I know nothing. But I imagine that medieval journalists in Britain had a similar problem with good old Martin Luthur and his Catholic nonsense, so I’ll press on regardless. (mehr …)

Free Sources or Why Production No Longer Worries Us (Part 2)

Cover of the book containing the German version of this text[Part 1 / Diesen Artikel gibt es auch auf Deutsch.]

Meshes and Routes

Re/production used to be a burden which kept countless people busy for most of their lives. No longer. It has become a relatively easy and mostly pleasant affair, not least because of our reliance on mesh networks. Decentralized mesh networks allow everyone to participate. They are organized in ways that avoid asymmetric dependencies and ensure that nobody can acquire a specifically privileged position.

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Free Sources or Why Production No Longer Worries Us (Part 1)

Cover of the book containing the German version of this text[Diesen Artikel gibt es auch auf Deutsch.]

[This text was first published in German in a collection on utopian thinking and social emancipation edited by the Berlin jour fixe initiative. “The most tangible utopia of this volume,” the editors write. “Christian Siefkes gives his voice to somebody who lives in a not-too-distant future, where the ideas of commons-based peer production have spread beyond the Internet to re-organize production and reproduction in all areas of life on the basis of decentralized, non-hierarchical, voluntary self-organization.” Technologically, not much utopian thinking was needed – all the technologies I describe already exist today, if sometimes in more basic forms. The social changes, however, are radical. License: CC-BY-SA. You can also read the complete article as PDF or EPUB.]

Kitchen Fabrication

We produce in the kitchen or in the bathroom. Most people have some fabrication bots at home. The popular 3D printer/mill combines a 3D printer with a computer-controlled milling machine. 3D printers produce three-dimensional objects by printing multiple layers of bioplastics, metal, or ceramic on top of each other, until the desired object is complete. Within several hours, typical home 3D printers can print objects up to 50 by 40 by 30 centimeters large. That’s big enough to print most durable households items, whether crockery, cutlery, games and toys, or tools. Electrical and electronic appliances are made in the same way, except for the actual electric or lighting elements. It’s also common to print replacement parts if something breaks down or doesn’t fit.

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Peercommony ist kein Gratis-Supermarkt

Contraste-Logo[Der vierte und letzte Teil meiner Diskussion mit Michael Albert, aus der September-2013-Ausgabe der Contraste.]

Michael Albert und Christian Siefkes diskutieren ihre Konzepte für eine Welt nach dem Kapitalismus. Die Teile I III erschienen in den CONTRASTEN Nr. 342, 344 und 346/347. Gekürzte Übersetzung Brigitte Kratzwald, Redaktion Graz.

Michael Alberts Zweifel an Peercommony

Christian Siefkes‘ Darstellung der Peercommony hat viele Ähnlichkeiten mit meinen eigenen Vorstellungen und Wünschen, aber es gibt auch etliche Gegensätze. Ich denke, dass seine Vorschläge manche Aspekte der Wirtschaft ausblenden. Er benennt zwei Bedingungen für Peercommony: erstens, menschliche Arbeit verschwindet durch Automatisierung aus dem Produktionsprozess und zweitens, alle haben Zugang zu Ressourcen und Produktionsmitteln.

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