tag archive: peer production

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 much and suggesting so many avenues to explore and learn more about.

Michel is responding to some critical remarks by Anthony Judge about the dark side of peer to peer. …

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. Either way, it is great to be read and I was glad that people responded positively to the article.

The success of GNU/Linux and other free …