[Reader-list] Milestone on the Way to the GPL Society

[Supreet Sethi]

GPL society, notion is interesting, seems to reach certain dead ends.
Without taking an absolute stand ... and just stating my humble
opinion.

1) GPL/FSF addresses the idea of personal freedom. Where I as a actor
intend to share my  stuff with you with certain pre-condition.

2) GPL Society would be a classic idea where you simply have a problem
and a solution to it. So the actor(programer) looks at a
situation(problem), lends/volunteers/sells (etc) his labor to create a
solution. What is never addressed is the situation has a third subject
which has been ignored, subjective opinion of user who uses the
program to exploit the solution for the problem that he faced. Which
brings us to a keyword: PACKAGING.

3) Current super-tribe environment also called globalization does'nt
allow us to have a personal touch with the produce. No emotional
attachment to what is our labor.
In certain sense I feel, GPL is a reaction to that. But it does'nt
give any feasible BUSSINESS MODEL in that accord. Like in medivial
periods we saw guilds, something like that would be possible in this
time and space is a open ended question.
 
4) Personnel Utopia's have exists in one form or the other in every period.

osho, nudist colonies etc etc. But for certain to phenomenon to take
over it has to evolve and prove itself to be universally feasible.
Brand driven take-over did work for a while but more it pushes the
envolope, more issues are coming up. Does GPL/Gift culture have some
potential, but how much the prove themselfs as a model is something to
see......



regards

Supreet


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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:09:07 +0530, Jeebesh Bagchi <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
> written in 2000 by stefan merten (oekonux), now translated from german
> into english:
> 
>   GNU/Linux - Milestone on the Way to the GPL Society
> 
> Stefan Merten <smerten at oekonux.de <mailto:smerten at oekonux.de>>
> 
> http://www.oekonux.org/texts/meilenstein/english.html
> 
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