[p2p-research] mode of production shootout

[Samuel Rose]

Patrick,

Thanks for your reply.

I asked this question, because it's my experience that in real-world
practice, different applications are "mixing" some elements of these "modes"
together. The conditions of the world itself often do not allow the actual
application of just one conceptually pure mode of production, distribution,
etc.

In the case of the http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercialization example I
am helping Marcin work on applying right now, Marcin is commercializing copy
lefted designs, by first asking people to co-fund his creation and
development of the product through many different cycles that will lead up
to the product being available for sale at the cost of labor and materials
only.

This is not (yet) a "User Owner" or "PropertyFarLeft" model, because
investors and users do not become full legal "owners" of anything. Instead,
they co-fund to help a team of people evolve a technology to the point of
being ready for commercial production, yet also released under a copyleft
license.

Although, Marcin also wants to bring interested folks to his location, show
them how to use the equipment, in exchange for those people turning out a
few products as part of their learning process. Those people will then be
able to go and replicate his business.

Marcin will also be able to sell his finished product to contractors,
builders, and others, who just want to buy a finished product (such as a
compressed earth block making machine, etc)

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that this model that Marcin has
come up with, (with some small contribution from myself), has some elements
of the different modes that you talk about in
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Mode_Of_Production_Shootout

I actually don't think that
http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercializationneeds a new entry in your
table. Instead, I think that
http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercialization as I am describing it, is
already defined by different elements in your table.

On Feb 9, 2008 2:54 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sam, Mich[a]el, and other researching peers,
>
> Samuel Rose wrote:
> > How do you see something like
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercialization
> > fitting into these categories (if at all)?
>
> Hey Sam.
>
> I found Marcin's SourceOpen.org stuff maybe back in 2003 [
> http://web.archive.org/web/20031231194735/http://www.sourceopen.org ]
> when I was trying to get the "Permaculture Propagation Project" and
> the more general "Communityism" ideas going.
>
> I have alot of respect for his "Open Source Ecology", "Open Farm Tech"
> and now "Neocommercialization" initiatives, and of course for your
> help with them.
>
> I've been thinking about this shootout idea for quite a while now, but
> suddenly got the urge to work on it "in the open" before thinking it
> through fully because that tends to only cause me too much
> procrastination...
>
> I definitely want to include more Modes, but have some questions/trouble:
>
> 1. I am not always sure what to name them.
> 2. The table is already kinda cramped.  Maybe we could break it into
> two or more tables?
> 3. I'm not sure User:Mattcoop even considers "Open Enterprise" a Mode,
> so would you please replace it for now with Neocommercialization (or
> whatever title you prefer).
>
> Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > I would appreciate if you would introduce it to our blog readers, in a
> > language that is accessible to laypeople not yet immersed in those
> debates,
>
> Sorry to be daft, but I'm not really sure what you mean.
>
> Maybe you could give it a go and I'll try to fill-in with whatever
> seems missing (insert questions in your explanation if that will
> help).
>
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