Interesting indeed Albert, and am sharing it with our list, sounds like the 'Shanzai' system,
Michel On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Albert Cañigueral <[email protected]> wrote: > You might enjoy this: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297 > > This fuzzy, gray relationship between companies and entrepreneurs is just > one manifestation of a much broader cultural gap between the East and the > West. The West has a “broadcast” view of IP and ownership: good ideas and > innovation are credited to a clearly specified set of authors or inventors, > and society pays them a royalty for their initiative and good works. China > has a “network” view of IP and ownership: the far-sight necessary to create > good ideas and innovations is attained by standing on the shoulders of > others, and as such there is a network of people who trade these ideas as > favors among each other. In a system with such a loose attitude toward IP, > sharing with the network is necessary as tomorrow it could be your friend > standing on your shoulders, and you’ll be looking to them for favors. This > is unlike the West, where rule of law enables IP to be amassed over a long > period of time, creating impenetrable monopoly positions. It’s good for the > guys on top, but tough for the upstarts. > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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