Re: [ox-en] Centralized peer production

2010/7/10 Patrick Anderson <[email protected]>:
>> Stefan Merten wrote:
>>> The example [of centralized production]
>>> I'm usually using is that of the Linux kernel.
>
> Stefan Meretz wrote:
>> To me the linux kernel is an example for a
>> _decentralized_ peer production
>
> You are both correct.
>
> This confusion arises when we don't differentiate between the Type of
> a thing and one specific Instance (or copy) of that thing.
>
> The Linux 'mainline' Instance is very clearly under the central
> authority of the self-declared benevolent dictator Linus Torvalds.
>
> But every other copy is decentralized because the software is
> protected by the GNU GPL which requires anyone receiving that instance
> has access to the Virtual Sources needed for modification.
>


that is exactly the meaning of a free good!

not a public good (controlled by state, or limited: army, public space)

not a common  good (limited: fishery, common ancestral land property)

not a private/club good,(only accessible to owners)

its free, everyone could copy/reproduce/modify/use/distribute it
once developed, its free, you can have/produce infinities copies of
it, and the possessor of that copy could do whatever he/she wants with
it.





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