Re: [ox-en] Fwd: [ox-de] Request for Comments: Die Peer-Ökonomie
- From: Michael Bauwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:50:35 -0700 (PDT)
This is really great news!
Michel
--- Stefan Meretz <stefan.meretz hbv.org> wrote:
[Translation from ox-de, by StefanMz; the book
annouced is in english!]
http://www.keimform.de/2007/09/20/request-for-comments-die-peer-oekonomie/
Request for Comments: The Peer Economy
By Christian Siefkes, September, 20th, 2007, 23:15
The big text I was working on for the last nine
months is ready. It is
about the question of the potential of peer
production -- the way free
software is produced. We know that this new mode of
production is of
great importance when it is about free software --
success stories like
GNU/Linux, Apache or Wikipedia speak for themselfs.
However, is this
mode of production only relevant for information
goods? Or is there a
potential for more, maybe a revolution of the entire
societal
production?
The results of my considerations are now published
having the
title "From Exchange to Contributions: Generalizing
Peer Production
into the Physical World". Initially It was intended
to be a long
article, but due to the complexity of the topic it
became a book!
This the announcement text:
A new mode of production has emerged in the
areas of software and
content production. This mode, which is based on
sharing and
cooperation, has spawned whole mature operating
systems such as
GNU/Linux as well as innumerable other free
software applications;
giant knowledge bases such as the Wikipedia; a
large free culture
movement; and a new, wholly decentralized medium
for spreading,
analyzing and discussing news and knowledge, the
so-called
blogosphere.
So far, this new mode of production--peer
production--has been
limited to certain niches of production, such as
information goods.
This book discusses whether this limitation is
necessary or whether
the potential of peer production extends
farther. In other words: Is
a society possible in which peer production is
the primary mode of
production? If so, how could such a society be
organized?
Is a society possible where production is driven
by demand and not
by profit? Where there is no need to sell
anything and hence no
unemployment? Where competition is more a game
than a struggle for
survival? Where there is no distinction between
people with capital
and those without? A society where it would be
silly to keep your
ideas and knowledge secret instead of sharing
them; and where
scarcity is no longer a precondition of economic
success, but a
problem to be worked around?
It is, and this book describes how.
The entire text of the book can be downloaded as PDF
(125 pages)
<http://www.peerconomy.org/text/peer-economy.pdf>
A smaller 2-up version (2 Pages on one page, 62
pages) is also available
<http://www.peerconomy.org/text/peer-economy.2-a4.pdf>
The text can be modified and copied following the
condition of the
Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike-Licence.
A paperback print shall be released in some days an
will cost 9 Euro --
recommendable for all, who want to do their eyes,
their printer, or
simply me a favour:-)
Since then I will be happy about feedback, critics,
and inspired
debates. If my book leads to a reflection, that a
post-capitalist
economy is no longer utopian as it seems to be, then
its ends are
achieved.
--
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Modern methods of production have given us the
possibility of ease and
security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have
overwork for some and
starvation for others. Hitherto we have continued to
be as energetic as
wewere before there were machines; in this we have
been foolish, but
there is no reason to go on being foolish forever.
-- Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
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