Open Source Economy-
Space and Time- Macro-material consciousness
- Biodiversity
- Agrobiodiversity
- Dynamic
- a system in constant evolution, from a species, as well as from an individual organism point of view
- Sub-types
- Genetic
- Species
- Ecosystem
- Definition
- The 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro defined biodiversity as "the variability among living organisms from all sources, including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems".
- Privitisation of (via IPR)
- The infinite
- Relativity
- Mass and Energy curve space-time
- Multi-dimensional fabric of existence
- E=MC^2
- Newtonian Physics
- Order Based
- Experiential Based
- Energy In = Energy Out
- Micro-material consciousness
- The infinite[ly small]
- Quantum Theory
- Wave Particle duality
- Matter as Particles
- Matter as Waves
- Patterns of Probability
- IT
- History of Open Source
Bazaar Model- Users should be treated as co-developers
- "Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow."
- Early Releases
- Frequent Integration.
- Several Versions
- High Modularization
- Dynamic decision making structure
GNU
Gnu's Not Unix - Manifesto - GPL
- The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
- The freedom to study how the program works, and modify it. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this)
- The freedom to redistribute copies.
- The freedom to improve the program, and release the improvements to the public. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this)
Linux- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- LAMP
- Apache
- Mysql
- Perl
- PerlIntro (man)
- "Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). Its major features are that it's easy to use, supports both procedural and object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in support for text processing, and has one of the world's most impressive collections of third-party modules."
- RCFs
- Internet Society
- Internet Architecture Board
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- The RFC tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact standard writing done by individuals or small working groups has important advantages over the more formal, committee-driven process typical of ANSI or ISO.
- Common Protocols
- IP
- TCP
- MIME
- DHCP
- HTTP
- NFS
- DNS
- FTP
- Free Software Foundation
- Open Source Initiative
- BSD
- Free Software
- "free as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer'"
- the freedom to run the program for any purpose
the freedom to study and modify the program
the freedom to copy the program so you can help your neighbor- the freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits
- a pure public good rather than a private good.
- the openness of free software eases internationalization.
- debate of economic status
- communist due to centralized control
- free market (capitalist) due to enterprise input
- par-econ due to a grassroots enterprise module
- motivations
- Competition
- more free software results in less capitalism
- Inter-market competition
Open vs. Proprietary- giving the software for free and instead charge for installation and support
- make the software available as open-source so that people will be more likely to purchase a related product or service you do sell (e.g. Openoffice.org vs StarOffice)
- cost avoidance / cost sharing: many developers need a product, so it makes sense to share development costs (this is the genesis of the X Window System and the Apache web server)
- Solutions for Empowerment (OpenEconApp)
- Micro-Economics
- Task management
- Scheduling/Logging
- Trend Compilation
- Dynamic DB structure
- Allows for continual 'reporting'
- Proposal management
- Allows for initial proposals to be worked out before being brought up to a larger context
- Resource management
- Energy In vs Energy Out
- Dynamic ordering system
- Continual purchase of small orders, vs static purchase of large orders
- Localised market
- focus on local resources, local (sustainable) farming solutions, localised energy solutions
- Macro-Economics
- Single sector
- dissemination of individual reports
- Again, dynamic reports, meaning a constant 'stream' of information rather than yearly/quarterly statements
- sector reporting
- Allowing the other members of a single industry to stay updated/empowered/knowledgeable about the other areas, and their impact on them
- Combination Industry
- Merge of individual sector 'reports'
- a dynamic merge, that changes as the constituant parts change
- Non-specialized empowerment
- workers in one industry could gain easy access to items of discussion, economic patterns/plans, etc of various other industries.
- Bio-feedback mechanism
- 'National' planning
- Key concept being dynamism
- Industry specific issues would be worked out (hopefully) on the combination industry level.
- 'National' Planning more for issues of externality
- Environmental Regulations
- Energy consumption patterns
- Development patterns
- Measures of the 'level' of the (human) economy
- Use the same framework ideals to map large level trends
- 'globally' local
- maintain sector to sector contact through an IT interface
- large-scale planning initiatives coming from the individual sectors
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Basic Ideas
- Copyright may subsist in creative and artistic works (such as books, movies, music, paintings, photographs and software)
- A patent may be granted in relation to a new and useful invention
- A trademark is a distinctive sign which is used to distinguish the products or services of one business from those of another business
- A trade secret is an item of confidential information concerning the commercial practices or proprietary knowledge of a business.
- Exclusive Rights
- Tragedy of the Commons
- the conflict between individual interests and the common good. The term was coined and popularized by Garrett Hardin in his 1968 Science article "The Tragedy of the Commons."
- Solutions
- Defection
- "mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon"
- Alternative systems of protection
- Creative Commons
- Gnu Free Documentation License
- Copyleft
- use it without limitation.
- (re-)distribute it in as many copies as desired
- modify it in any way they see fit.
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Common Property Rights
- GMOs
- Discussion
- Many opponents of current genetic engineering believe the increasing use of GM in major crops has caused a power shift in agriculture towards Biotechnology companies gaining excessive control over the production chain of crops and food, and over the farmers that use their products, as well.
- Many proponents of current genetic engineering techniques believe it will lower pesticide usage and has brought higher yields and profitability to many farmers, including those in third world countries. A few GM licenses allow third world farmers to save seeds for next year's planting.
- TRIPS
- GATT
- Requirements
- Copyright terms must extend to 50 years after the death of the author (although films and photographs are only required to have fixed 50 and 25 year terms, respectively).
- Copyright must be granted automatically, and not based upon any "formality", such as registrations or systems of renewal.
- Computer programs must be regarded as "literary works" under copyright law and receive the same terms of protection.
- National exceptions to copyright (such as "fair use" in the United States) must be tightly constrained.
- Patents must be granted in all "fields of technology" (regardless of whether it is in the public interest to do so).
- Exceptions to patent law must be limited almost as strictly as those to copyright law.
- In each state, intellectual property laws may not offer any benefits to local citizens which are not available to citizens of other TRIPs signatories (this is called "national treatment"). TRIPs also has a most favoured nation clause.
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
- Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
- Controversy
- Access to essential medicines
- Software and business method patents
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ParEcon - Equity: How much should people get and why?
- Remunerate according to the contribution of each person’s physical and human assets.
- Remunerate according to the contribution of each person’s human assets only.
- Remunerate according to each person’s effort or personal sacrifice.
- Remunerate according to each person’s need.
- Self-management: What kind of say over their conditions should people have?
- Vest most power in a few actors and leave the rest very little say over decisions that affect them.
- Distribute power more equally, with each actor always having one vote in a majority-rules process.
- Vary the way power is distributed depending on the relation of each actor to specific decisions. Sometimes you get more say, sometimes I get more say. The issue then becomes defining the criteria that determine how much say any of us have in one decision as compared to another.
- Diversity: Should paths to fulfillment be diversified or narrowed?
- Solidarity: Should people cooperate or compete?
- Efficiency
- In comparison to...
- Current Favoured Economies
- private ownership of the means of production
- Norm One - Renumeration for property
- hierarchical corporate divisions of labor
- central planning
- markets
- Free Trade
- WTO
- No subsidies/Comparitive Advantage
- Specialization amongst countries
- laissez faire
- Milton Friedman
- Economies of Scale
- Natural Monopoly
- Water Services
- Energy Services
- Bureaucracy
- Philosophically opposed to IPR
- TRIPS?! (wtf?)
- Fair Trade
- State Run Centralised Govt
- coordinator class of planners and managers
- The famous “down/up down/up” process is down-go- questions, up-come-answers; down-go-orders, up-comes- obedience.
- Qualitative information that is essential to evaluating human outcomes is never generated, much less dis- seminated.
- Elite conceptual workers—the central planners and plant managers who we call coordinators—monopolize the technical information required for decision-making.
- The only management left to individual production units is to “manage” to fulfill the central planners’ targets using inputs allotted them by the central planners.