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Hi Paul and all! 4 days ago Paul Cockshott wrote:
Stefan wrote: In fact there are information goods which need pretty big means of production to be produced. Just think of research. Much research needs huge and extremely expensive machines to produce machines. Space
^^^^^^^^ Oops that should have been "information" of course.
research, sub-atom research, pharmaceutical research, ... All these types of research more or less produce information. But they face the same problems in terms of peer production as producing physical goods. -------------- Paul Yes but the product of this research, in the case of physics for example, is a common good, nobody owns information about fundamental particles. Where the research is performed under capitalist relations of production rather than being funded by society as a whole, attempts are made to privately appropriate the knowledge.
True. What I wanted to point out is that the division is not between information goods and physical goods. Insofar the question on how to transfer peer production to the physical world is wrong. I got that idea because the production of Free Medicine came to my mind. This is something which is really pressing for poor countries and for which I remember there were at least one initiative I unfortunately can't find on the web. But even production of such medicine is expensive because you need a lot of infrastructure and machines. My current idea is that the division has really a lot to do with means of production. Expensive machines creating information are just one example. May be means of production in a wider sense. Just thinking about it... Grüße Stefan _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: projekt oekonux.de
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