Moving to Freedom: peer production

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9 September 2007

Michel Bauwens comments on the dark side of peer to peer

I first became aware of the P2P Foundation last year after Michel Bauwens sent me a nice email in response to “Free software is a weak mode of production?” I’ve since followed the P2P Foundation blog in my feed reader.

It is delightfully information-dense with good pointers and commentary about peer production. It can also be hard to keep up with, given my scattershot approach to information absorption. I should take more time to read and think about the ideas presented there by Michel and others.

An entry by Michel today is typically thoughtful and thought-provoking. He apparently has a deep well of enthusiasm and energy to draw from for this subject, and I’m glad someone is saying these things so eloquently. I love reading stuff like this, conveying so …

by Scott Carpenter on 9 September 2007 at 1:03 pm
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28 October 2006

Free Software is a Weak Mode of Production?

Originally published in Free Software Magazine, 16 October 2006.

Another digg front page item, with 375+ diggs to date, resulting in more than 10,000 reads at FSM.

This one sparked a lot more discussion both at digg and at FSM, probably because of the provocative title. Maybe it would have been less inflammatory to put a question mark on there as I did here, but you know how it is when you’re needy and desperate for attention. It was meant to be a hook and brief teaser with the first paragraph, but it’s interesting how many people don’t read past to the second and third paragraphs before firing up their flamethrowers. I guess I asked for it. …

by Scott Carpenter on 28 October 2006 at 10:15 am
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