From: Michael Heinrich (m.heinrich@PROKLA.DE)
Date: Sun Dec 23 2007 - 14:52:48 EST
Sabine Nuss presented such a theoretical elaboration in her book "Copyright & Copyriot" (in German) - rather critical against the idea that communism would start with linux. Papers of her (in German) you can find on her website www.nuss.in-berlin.de A brief English handout presented at the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York is http://wbk.in-berlin.de/wp_nuss/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/digitalproperty_02.pdf This paper followed a debate with Richard Stallmann http://wbk.in-berlin.de/wp_nuss/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/stall_1.html Michael Howard Engelskirchen schrieb: > Paul and others, > > I'd be interested in some theoretical elaboration of this -- why > would left wing computer people say so and what would they mean when > they say so? How do they think existing relations of production are > transformed? > > howard > > At 05:25 PM 12/22/2007, you wrote: > >> I think what Gates says here is what many left wing computer people >> would also say. >> >> Paul Cockshott >> Dept of Computing Science >> University of Glasgow >> +44 141 330 3125 >> www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/ >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: OPE-L on behalf of glevy@PRATT.EDU >> Sent: Sat 22/12/2007 5:34 PM >> To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU >> Subject: [OPE-L] OpenSource: a "new source of communism" >> >> A short article from the English >> online version of >> _L'Humanite'_, >> published by the PCF, in which >> Bill Gates >> is quoted as saying >> that Open Source is a "new >> source of communism": >> >> <http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article319.html> >> >> >> The article, though, doesn't >> identify the >> original source for >> the quote. >> >> In solidarity, Jerry > >
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