In his excellent paper,
Coase's Penguin: Linux and The Nature of the Firm, Yochai Benkler
explains, not the motivation, but the technical and legal
preconditions for cooperative informational and cultural production.
The technical considerations are basically: telematically interlinked
personal
At 03.02.03 19:14, Morlock Elloi wrote:
The only way to benefit from openness is to use it and verify yourself,
insteadof delluding yourself that someone out there will spend days
doing that for ...what ?
There are certainly advantages to doing things yourself (just ask all the
guys hanging
Right at the time when nettime reached the arbitrary yet symbolic number
of 3000 subscribers, the number of error messages flooding the nettime
system reached such proportions (several hundreds a day) that we were
finally forced to go through the boring process of unsubscribing those
addresses
After distributed proofreading [1], now distributed translating.
According to this website [2] more than 1000 people contributed to the
translation into German of Harry Potter 4. Now, they are translating volume
5, which has been released in English but not yet in German.
The way it works:
Six Limitations to the Current Open Source Development Methodology
The Open Source Approach to develop informational goods has been
spectacularly successful, particularly in the area for which it was
developed, software. Also beyond software, there are important, successfull
Open Source projects
Hi Ben,
I would be hesitant to define the open source approach
solely or even primarily in terms of the characteristics you mention.
Perhaps I did not put it as clearly as I should have. I did not mean to
characterize the open source approach in terms of its internal
organization. Rather,
Rev. Walter J. Ong; traced the history of communication
By Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times, 8/16/2003
ttp://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2003/08/16/rev_walter_j_ong_traced_the_history_of_communication
LOS ANGELES -- The Rev. Walter J. Ong, a Jesuit priest and a leading scholar
in
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:46:55 +0200
From: Stefan Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last week (9 days ago) geert lovink wrote:
Six Limitations to the Current Open Source Development Methodology
I'm not always sure in which way or to what areas the following points
are limitations.
I'm writing a little glossary for a newspaper [1] we are putting together
on IP issues. The newspaper will be distributed at WSIS [2]. Better
definitions are welcome.
Public Good:
Goods whose use is non-rivalrous, i.e. using the good does not deplete it,
and non-excludable, i.e.
The discussion on software patents in the EU parliament in Strasbourg has
triggered one of the most substantive political manifestations of the Open
Source / Free Software communities in Europe to date. In Vienna, for
example, there was a demonstration in front of the patent office, with a
[It's quite amazing, not too long ago, an outfit like the WSJ would have
any questioning of the absolute enforcement of copyrights slandered the
way Forbes slandered the FSF recently. Now, suddenly, even the WSJ admits
that things are up for grabs and that there are valid several options.
Now, you
[This is unlikely to be a legal case, though from a semiotic point of view,
it's nevertheless puzzling. Is using images that are released under the GPL
the same than using source code released the GPL? Is including existing
images into new images, in this case, a screenshot of a kde desktop in
It was long suspected that p2p usage stats could reveal more accurate user
preferences than traditional traditional charts and 'hit parades'. Sad to
see it implemented like this.
Our hope was that we could take the technology revolution that
Napster made popular and create tools for the
[I have no direct knowlegde of the complex situation in Venezuela. Yet, I
found this article on community radios/TVs to be very interesting. As far
as I can tell, Chavez, though attacking the oligrachy (see Brian Holmes'
post a few days ago), has not been shutting down, or taking over, their
Transeuropean Picnic
Historic events are odd things, mostly disappointing. They feel either like
empty routines of calendarial arbitrariness (200 years French Revolution, the
millennium) or utterly imposed (9/11, war in Iraq). Either way, they usually
render one passive, through boredom or
--- Forwarded message follows ---
May 25, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FBI ABDUCTS ARTIST, SEIZES ART
Feds Unable to Distinguish Art from Bioterrorism
Grieving Artist Denied Access to Deceased Wife's Body
DEFENSE FUND ESTABLISHED - HELP URGENTLY NEEDED
Steve Kurtz was already
This is a pretty good, if partisan, summary of the discussion and it
highlights what is one of the most fundamental, and I would agree troubling,
differences between the CreativeCommons and the 'flatrate' approach. CC
relies on a bottom-up strategy that can start right here and right now. No
Andrew, Rana,
I know nothing about this particular outfit other than its email
advertisement, so calling it a 'sweatshop' was more an act of parody a la
'spam kr!it!k' rather one of analysis. The subject line 'business' seemed
rather bland. Yet, it was also not random, as the message struck me
It seems like the real battle over the future of Free and Open Source Software
is being fought in the area of patents, not copyright.
Copyright, which protects a particular expression, is very hard to infringe
upon involuntarily. Even if two people happen to have the same idea, chances
are,
Felix, sorry if I sound rude, but this is not true, and you
unintentionally spread FUD here!
Proprietary licensing does _not_ protect customers from patent ligitation,
unless the license contract explicitly states so. Software patents can be
and have been enforced against users/licensees of
OK, let me try to restate my argument somewhat differently as to take into
consideration a) the fact that software being proprietary _per se_ does
not indemnify the user (Florian's point) and b) that SW patents create a
mess for all programmers (Scott's point) and c) that none of us is a
patent
[As the article points out at the end, 500 patents is a relatively small
number for IBM (which holds more than 10.000 software patents).
Nevertheless, it represents a significant policy change in how to manage
patents by the world's leading holder of patents. Is is also very
different from
On Monday, 16. May 2005 12:56, Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker wrote:
We suggest that this opposition between closed and open is flawed. It
unwittingly perpetuates one of today's most insidious political myths,
that the state and capital are the two sole instigators of control.
Instead
Here's an interesting use of copyright for all of those who track its (ab)use
for
political reasons. In Poland, publisher Marek Skierkowski is being investigated
on
behalf of the state of Bavaria for infringing on its copyright on the works of
Adolf Hitler.
The case is the following: The
Forwarded with the permission of the author. Felix
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: [ipr] A pragmatic respone to a Critique of the Commons without
Commonalty
Date: Thursday, 7. July 2005 19:58
From: Andrew Rens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: iprpublicdomain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
The
The CC licenses, however, try to provide some protections for the
producers of content by providing non-commercial clauses.
Which is a bogus advantage. We had this discussion in Nettime before,
and the common sense was that the concept of commerce implied in those
clauses is neither
On 11/01/06, Prem Chandavarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A referendum helps to resolve impasses reached when you have polarised
opinions on critical single cause issues. It cannot be a substitute for
the day to day negotiations of representative politics.
True. On the other hand, elected
Yesterday, there was a party in Vienna. It was a small, at times sombre, at
times
exuberant affair, fitting for the occasion. The final call for netbase, the
institute for cultural technologies. Today, the doors remained closed and the
website turned static.
After more than a decade sailing
Open Source Projects as Voluntary Hierarchies
Weber, Steven (2004) The Success of Open Source. Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP
ISBN: 0-674-01292-5, pp. 311
Over the last half-decade, free and open source software (FOSS) has moved from
the hacker margins to the mainstream. Corporations, large and
[It's amazing to see that the treaty which many identify as the corner stone
of information feudalism (Peter Drahos) is judged as a failure by one of
it's main designers. From Ian Brown's blog, via the always excellent EDRI
newsletter [2]. Felix]
Lehman: TRIPS was a mistake
Negativity is has its charms, but the fate of being positive and
community-minded
is inescapable on the Internet. In order to do anything collaboratively, that
is,
anything at all beyond pure consumption, the 'community' has to minimize
internal
dissent and make people feel good about
Perhaps I'm missing here something obvious, but I always thought that networks
are a basic type of organization (as are hierachies, markets, and communes,
in fact, standard theory assumes that there are only these four basic forms).
So, to speak of an organized network, makes no sense to me.
[The voices of artists against the expansion of copyrights are getting
stronger. Stuff like that will make it harder for the industry to
claim to represent the interests of creators. Very good. Felix]
Media Release:
Coalition of Canadian Art Professionals Releases Open Letter on
Copyright
Hi everyone,
sorry for my previous post, it went out without being finished. What
I wanted to say was that many of the themes that critical net.culture
talked about 10 years ago are now mainstream. They are now playing
themselves out on a scale far beyond 'net.culture', indeed, they have
On Sunday, 11. June 2006 02:21, John Hopkins wrote:
In this Light, I would challenge Felix and Ted (and any others
feeling qualified) to write a brief task description of the
(different) roles/positions necessary to run nettime as it is today.
Put it out here. I certainly have some interest,
[It would be ironic if the raid on piratebay.org turned out to be the
trigger to create an 'alternative compensation system' (levy on broadband
to compensate right holders in order to legalize p2p file sharing). The
guys from piratebay have been among the most vocal (and astute) critics of
I'm not sure I understand the main thrust of the argument.
On the one hand, GPL-type copyleft is criticized for not preventing the
appropriation (or, more precisely, use) of code by commercial, capitalist
interests. These still manage to move profits from labor (employees /
contractors who
On Friday, 5. January 2007 20:36, Michael H Goldhaber wrote:
We have reached a crucial turning point in American history. The
November elections and current polls have made clear that Americans
have soured on the Iraq war, and want the troops to be withdrawn
rapidly.
I'm not a close
[This his how my script-based reading system (SpamAssassin) interprets
Alan's script-based writing. The point is not that it (miss)qualifies as
spam, but the interpretative rules that come into effect. Felix]
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On Wednesday, 7. February 2007 16:33, Geert Lovink wrote:
What is kind of amazing is the Anglo-Saxon language policing, which
term is and is not 'proper' English. An (English) wikipedia entry
cannot be valid if it based on 'foreign language' sources now about
that? Wikipedia is not a
This is very sad news, indeed. As Trebor Scholz wrote Ricardo Rosas
saw and established connections where few people could perceive them,
let alone could make them work. Yet, once he pointed them out and set
out to bring them into the world, they were natural. He introduced a
lot of people,
On Sunday, 10. June 2007 19:42, Morlock Elloi wrote:
If empowerment of the public by cheap self-publishing has demonstrated
anything, it is that a vast majority has nothing to say, lacks any
detectable talent and mimicks TV in publishing the void of own life (but
unlike TV they derive no
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