Re: [ox-en] Re: The nature of apple trees
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:19:33 +0200
Hi CTVN!
2 days ago CTVN wrote:
whats the difference between a slave and a worker? the latter has money as
an effective exchange tool available to selbstentfalt him/herself when
(s)he is not being forced to spend 40 hours per week to do a job thats
necessary for a society to function well. seems like a reasonable
(improvable, not abolishable) system to me.
Well, I'm for overcoming it by better alternatives.
sorry, i just cant picture a
world where everyone is free and basically does what (s)he wants and
things overall still work. there are just too many boring, repetitive
(even interesting, repetitive tasks often become boring over time), and
"servant" tasks outthere that need to be done.
Indeed this is hard to imagine. But this is part of the challenge of
Oekonux to imagine and research exactly that.
Just that you being raised in the old system lack imagination does not
mean it is impossible, however. People in the 18th century certainly
could not imagine that 200 years later life of an average person is
largely defined by money. Still this is the case.
i think you totally underestimate the importance of money, companies and
exchange ("structural force") in OS projects.
Can you then please give me a reference where I can get money for my
own Free Software activities?
basically, my impression that ive got over time is
that - as a rule with exceptions (like apache) - the most successful os
projects have exchange, money and corporate backers involved to a large
degree.
I don't think that we agree on the term "successful" here. Can you
give criteria for a successful project?
To use an arbitrary example: Is Docutils a successful project? If not:
Why do you think so?
Grüße
Stefan
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