The Mirror’s Gonna Steal Your Soul v1.0

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1 Ideas Can Not Be Free

Published on Media Mutandis – a NODE.London Reader (http://publication.nodel.org)

Ideas Can Not Be Free

The Free Software and free culture movements are today’s loudest opponents of the wide introduction and implementation of patents and copyright, the main tools of intellectual property regimes. At the heart of their arguments lie the values of [...]

Free Software v1.0

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Introduction

“Civilization has reached every part of the world and the North has realised it cannot conquer by restricting access to factors of production through waging war; the best method to maintain the status quo is by denying the South access to the most important factor which without it all others are derailed; this factor [...]

Series on Commu(o)nism: Open Process, the organizational spirit of the Internet Model, pt 1 v0.5.2

Abstract: The desires and the sources of emancipatory potential of the commons for the cooperative and egalitarian global togetherness, for a new communism born through the new generation of tools and organizational practices, have temporarily been appropriated and hi-jacked by capitalism under the Open Source and to an extent Creative Commons movements. Through and with [...]

Series on Commu(o)nism: Open Process, the organizational spirit of the Internet Model, pt 2 v0.5.2

Engineering the privatization of the common

Tim O’Reilly was, along with Raymond, perhaps the key figure in the business part of the group of Open Source (let’s not forget that almost all of the Open Source founders were part of the FS communities to an extent) counter-revolution. Behlendorf, one of the Apache project founders, was inspired [...]

Research Threads to replace special issues v0.2

Here’s an idea that that is part of the proposal for one of the journals i’m working with on implementing aspects of open-process in academic publishing: a different way to deal with topics important to a journal is to replace the concept of special issues, with the concept of research threads.

In short: research threads are  [...]

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