[ox-en] Re: Athina Karatzogianni * Confronting the difficulties of learning from the open source for contemporary social movements

Hi again!

Oops there was one point I forgot in my last reply.

6 days ago Stefan Merten wrote:
> * Bruce Perens 2003 at the LinuxWorld Conference
> 
> * 'This is a "Linux" show, focusing upon a product. But the real
>   subject of this trade show - Free Software and open Source - is a
>   social movement. Like other social movements, its advances its own
>   ideas - in our case ideas about software equality, competition,
>   copyrights and patents as property. It's extremely unusual in that
>   few other social movements make real products.

I'd put it differently. Free Software / peer production *is not* a
social movement in the sense of the talk of Athina. In fact even Bruce
Perens emphasizes the fact that peer production is about production.

Instead I'd say peer production *creates* classical political
movements when necessary. Bruce names a few topics for which it is
useful for peer production to have an accompanying political movement.


						Grüße

						Stefan
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