Re: [OPE-L] OpenSource: a "new source of communism"

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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