it's post-capitalist! was: Re: Neither pro nor anti but trans! (was: Re: [ox-en] GPL Restrictive (and all the rest of those threads that this grew out of))

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• Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:07:51 +0000

Hi

On Fri 16-Jan-2004 at 10:42:51PM [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Stefan Merten
wrote:

Last month (53 days ago) Benj Mako Hill wrote:

Your email, and your argument, seems to be rooted in
the (quite pervasive) idea that: Free Software ==
anti-capitalist production or some derivation of that.

It's neither pro- nor anti- but it's trans-capitalist.
If you assume that you suddenly can explain a lot of
things.

I havn't heard the term trans-capitalist before -- I tend
to use post-capitalist -- I agree that trying to fit the
free software mode of production into a capitalist or
anti-capitalist framework of understanding doesn't work.

Chris


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