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Michel Bauwens writes:
I'm not the one saying free software has no value, while in fact, it has tremendous 'use' value. Otherwise, why would anybody bother using it?
You can only understand this on the background of sophisticted German theoreticians expression. Because Marx uses "value" to sharply distinct the "essence from the appearance of exchange value" (a very important theoretical achievement imho indeed, and maybe easier to express in German with "Wertform" and "Wertsubstanz", the term "valueless" has been applied by the Marxists to express the respective qualities of phenomena: A household work is valueless in that sense, and in contradiction to the usual usage of the term it means a "non-affectedness by value form". Unfortunately, the direct translation from theoretical insight into everday language is more difficult than some acknowledge. A country in which a group of intellectuals comes up with a "Manifesto Against Labour" has a pretty peculiar scene of thought which directly negates popular use of language (and also ambiguity of forms) - a grave mistake in my eyes. Also, there are more sophisticated attempts to express this - like in German you can distinguish between "wertlos" and "wertfrei" ("value-less" versus "value-free"). Franz _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: projekt oekonux.de
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