We featured Nicholas Bentley’s proposals on Intellectual Property reform before. He recently send us some recommended resources on the subject. Nicholas Bentley: Innovation and intellectual property – National Consumer Council “Traditionally, businesses and policy-makers have tended to think of consumers as being at the end of the value chain, choosing from the range of products… Continue reading
Date archives "February 2006"
The ‘distribution of capital’ debate
As I have already argued in the entry on the distribution of everything, for participation and peer to peer modes to flourish, we need to distribute education, the means of production (networked computers and desktop manufacturing), but also financial capital. This debate is picking up steam, after a post by David Winer, below is what… Continue reading
Trusting Peers more than institutions
PR expert Richard Edelman, who has his own blog, summarizes a recent Edelman Trust Barometer report showing that trust in peers is exploding, while trust in mediating institutions is declining. Here’s a summary quote: “The most profound finding of the 2006 Edelman Trust Barometer is that in six of the 11 countries surveyed, the “person… Continue reading
Peer production, gender and feminism
Some time ago, I had contacted Meike Reichle, who had been recommended to me as a active open source participant (Debian) as well as informed feminist, on what she thought about the interplay of peer production, more specifically free and open source software development, and the role of women in it. After she read my… Continue reading