On 7/31/09, Thomas Lord wrote: > I am working for the FSF on a short-term > exploratory project towards a platform for user-controlled > servers on which such things would be happily hosted.
User control of the Material Means of Production is the link we've been missing! I've always envisioned that control being 'endowed' to each user through real property ownership, but that may not be absolutely necessary as long as secession with retainment is easy and profit is payer investment. Thomas, could you explain briefly how the costs of that operation will be covered and the governance structure? 1.) Will there be a well-intentioned dictator or committee that determines direction? [please say no] 2.) Will the users pay a flat rate (even if just by enduring ads) and then 'vote' on every change? What if I want to store material that some others find offensive? How will we solve the Tyranny of the Majority problem? 3.) Will each user be allowed to easily fund and pool funds with other users to buy more Physical Sources (more RAM, Disk space, CPU power, etc.) to accomplish goals none of the original organizers had planned - with the right to split/fork/divide off their portion of those physical resources when other users are opposed to being associated with that activity? [please say yes] 4.) How will new users be treated when they do not have any ownership? How will they slowly gain the property (or control) they need? My solution to this is to go ahead and charge a price above cost, but to treat that overpayment as though that user had just made an investment (in more Physical Sources) that he now owns - so that every user slowly but finally gains the property he needs for the control he must have to insure User Freedom. I am very interested in this initiative. Is there anywhere I could read more about it? Thanks, Patrick Anderson Consumer Capital Cooperative Personal Sovereignty Foundation _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.autonomo.us http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss
