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Stefan Merten wrote:
I must change my assessment of Free Software. The special quality of
Free Software is not that it creates a sphere without value substance
being outside of the otherwise value producing sphere of proprietary
software. As a universal good software can not embody value as a
matter of principle. Inside the proprietary software production -
being determined by the value form - products are created whose
universal character contradicts their private form.
The new in the old emerges also in the old forms, not only besides
them. Free Software as universal production which also takes on the
form of societal production ("vergesellschaftete Produktion") is the
mode of production adequate to the universal character of the good.
This is the new quality and this constitutes its germ form character.
Yes, yes, yes. Finally :-)Although even so I think 'being determined by the value form' is too strong - the fact that there is a continual need to find ways to stop people as treating them as valueless (ie. copying them) shows that the 'contradiction' shows itself in a struggle over whether the value-form applies even to proprietary software, rather than there being a simple 'determination'.
But what changed your minds? Graham _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: projekt oekonux.de
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