Comments on: The betrayal of community ethics by the venture-capital financed ‘sharing’ companies https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-betrayal-of-community-ethics-by-the-venture-capital-financed-sharing-companies/2013/11/26 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:14:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Stefan Champailler https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-betrayal-of-community-ethics-by-the-venture-capital-financed-sharing-companies/2013/11/26/comment-page-1#comment-566719 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:14:38 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=34366#comment-566719 Hmmm… Not sure if this is actually a problem… Afterall, that’s the regular opportunistic attitude of those who make money first; there are part of the world. So this shows that the model of sharing is flexible enough to cohabit with/encompass another form of resources transfer.

On a side note I regularly read on HackerNews and other places that some people do think about their start up idea as :

– something that lives on network effect (which I often find a form of peer to peer)
– something that has a social value (which I guess is a kind of romantic view of utility)

But since it is a “start up” idea, I hardly can relate the “social value” of it to the regular social value(s) of “peer to peer”. The I-don’t-know-how-much-a-capitalist-I-am syndrome…

I guess the difference is between a P2P network that is based on a protocol (such as bittorrent, bitcoin, TOR network, etc) rather than on an organisation tool (mediated P2P ?). That’s the same kind of dynamix between free software and open source software. The former is much more resistant to control.

But maybe I completely miss the point of the article…

stF

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