[p2p-research] more on girard

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Zbigniew,

thanks for the always interesting input on our blog,

particularly the last one piques my interest.

I was wondering if you would not be willing to write a more formal
contribution on this topic for our blog?

Michel

What Rene Girard says is that the group dynamics always leads to the mimetic
conflict - so a group without mechanisms keeping it together, deterring
violance and reducing mimetic desire between participants will always end up
in disintegration. When you look at Open Source project groups - there is
two differences from off-line communities. First being off-line the violence
of mimetic conflict id not dangerous for people physically. Second the
licensing prevents community members from destroying the accumulated
community wealth (the code). This all shows how mimetic conflict, which is
according to Rene Girard one of the main obstacles in sustained group
action, is much less malignant in Open Source communities.

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