On 08/02/11 16:26, Michel Bauwens wrote:
- *you do not care for children with free software commons, you do not eat with it, you do not make love or bury the dead.
literally of course you are right, but in may other ways, no, in fact, software <is> a universal enabler, and, , it makes a crucial importance 'in real life'; in fact, it affects the care for children (through advances in medical knowledge, increased autonomy of patients, reachability of disadvantaged populations)
The WHO estimates that 85% of the world's population rely on traditional medicine. The major threat to traditional medicine according to many - and this I have found to be a general consensus among the people I have worked with in the Amazon - is foreign language, education, medicine, technology and all the side effects (land grabs etc.) of the production of these.