Keyword: Germ form

• Something structural new existing in the old
  Not the new in a small version
• Features of a contemporary emancipatory germ form
  • Global networking
  • Absence of exchange value and exchange
  • Self-organization
  • At the forefront of the development of productive forces
    Technical, but also social
  • Makes Selbstentfaltung possible
    Also as part of the development of productive forces
• Germ forms can be assessed only historically
  However, one can try to recognize germ forms

Free Software has characteristics of a germ form