Re: [ox-en] Re: Open Money?
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 00:28:51 +0100
Hi Ernie and all!
2 weeks (20 days) ago ernie yacub wrote:
At 11:04 AM 1/20/2002 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Stefan Merten wrote:
However, nobody poses the question "If hobby artists receive nothing
for their painting, how they are to live?". I'd be interested in
learning about the assumption which makes the one question make sense
to many people while the other doesn't.
Actually, neither makes sense to me. If fs and art is important to us, why
must they be relegated to hobbies? How about a world where artists and fs
developers are fully supported so they don't have to work for
globocorp? This is actually doable with open money.
Well, it's *doable* with conventional money too as it is *doable* in a
GPL-society. Well, in a GPL-society this is an obsolete question,
actually. With conventional money this is a question of political
decisions which in the form of a democratic state at least should
reflect what peoples think.
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.
So how would you describe how Free Software actually happens? Actually
I'm very interested in your answer because you're the first one, who
dismisses the above with such ease.
Mit Freien Grüßen
Stefan
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