[p2p-research] Non digital commons a lot more complicated than Free Software

[Michel Bauwens]

I would be happy to republish that article, but do check roberto
verzola as name in our blog searchbox, as I think I've published
something similar in the past,

Michel

On 12/8/10, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 13:17:38 PM +0800, Roberto Verzola
> (rverzola at gn.apc.org) wrote:
>> j.martin.pedersen wrote:
>
>> Although I helped introduce the Internet among Philippine NGOs, I
>> eventually realized the dark side of the Internet too, which I
>> describe in detail in my book Towards a Political Economy of
>> Information (full text available here:
>> http://rverzola.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/infoeconomy-verzola.pdf)
>> and several other pieces circulating online. I even went as far as
>> "logging off", as you suggested (again, I describe this the book)
>> and only occasionally using Internet cafes for some searching and
>> emailing. I did so for around one year.
>>
>> And I truly saw the dilemma. The Internet was so biased in favor of
>> big monopolists that to simply join it already made us markets for
>> hardware, software, connectivity, consultancies, etc. etc. So, we
>> join and we already lose.
>
> Roberto, and Michel,
>
> maybe I'm just sleepy today, but was this message reformatted and
> published on the blog or anywhere else already? It is very
> interesting!
>
> The only "defect" (which is not Roberto's fault, of course!) is that
> as is is probably too "heavy" for non activists. To fix this "defect"
> I would like to do a synthesis of it ( <=500 words) both in english
> and italian and publish it on my blog, with CC0 license, sometimes
> next week. Is that OK? Of course, if such a synthesis already exists online,
> thanks for the link!
>
> Marco
>
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