Now that GPL version 3 (The most popular legal device used to make sure software remain Free always) is complete. It was completed in a historic 18 months long process and participation from thousands of people and big player in the industry. Here Eben talks about the way it is going to affect other areas in the society, how communities going to decide terms concerning their life through collaboration.
Read through the extract and see the full talk link below. .... [quote] What is really important about what we are doing is that we are modelling other things that people can do for themselves. We are not creating something that you have to take from us, you either like or dislike, you either approve of or disapprove of, you either wish for or hate - we are only establishing proof of concept plus running code plus community equals freedom. And that proposition applies far beyond the domain of computer software, applies far beyond the domain of freeing music from its owners, applies far beyond the domain of making the children of the world the programmers and the videographers and the producers and the directors, not the consumers of culture. Those things this is about, no question, and the mighty will fall in many directions, as communities begin to out-produce what capitalism's deepest and intensest collections of power can presently do on their own terms. But this is the least of it, really, the least of it. The fundamental improvement being reached here is an improvement in the technology of self-government. An improvement in the technology of human freedom through the substitution of words and ideas, for force. An improvement of the substitution of community values for the single minded pursuit of individual, or aggregate profit at the expense of any other competitor that might get in the way. We have refashioned what competition and co-operation mean, as we have refashioned how production occurs in the digital economy. This, though large, though some will say too grand to be real, is the actual veilance of what we have just lived through. Read the full story http://jeremiad.org/moglentext.shtml (It is really long but clarifies a lot of myths and covers a lot of ideas as always). Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
