Re: [ox-en] Re: Open Money?
- From: LutzH <me privacy.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:58:45 +0100
Hi all,
* ernie yacub <yacinfo mars.ark.com> [20020121 08:28 -0800]:
At 11:04 AM 1/20/2002 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Stefan Merten wrote:
How will we all live without the means to buy the necessities of
life?
This is of course a question which reaches (far?) into the future.
And I guess for people grown up in money-based societies this is
really difficult to imagine.
No, not difficult to imagine a mythical land of "if" where everyone
grows their own food and no-one needs software anymore and there are
no cities and the population is a minuscule fraction of what it is now
spread throughout the warm fertile regions after the great dieoff.
Well, I guess this doesn't count as a proper reply to Stephan's wording.
In the Oekonux project _nobody_ is dreaming up a
back-to-the-roots-of-mother-earth-life. Just the oposite is true: Free
and high quality software, automation, all things that make the dull
things in life managable with wasting as little human energy as possible
are important for a life not based on money. Stephan is not talking
about a life without highly developed productive forces but without
money to mediate the needs of men. *This* is the notion difficult to
imagine.
Free Software shows us one example where this is already happening:
You simply take what you need and make available what you like.
It seems there is considerable disagreement that what you describe is
actually what is happening.
Well, I think that exactly is what's happening: Free software is
available for free (as in speech and consequently as in beer), I take it
when I need it, I use and distribute it according to the terms set down
in proper license. If I'm good enough to write some piece of Free
software on my own, I publish it without asking anybody for a return of
any kind, be it money, attention, fame.
Regards, Lutz
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