Hi everybody!
If we define the open paradigm as the one's right to access information or resources, then what is the equivalent ,to GPL, license when it comes to resources and especially capital(infrastructure)?
Consumers who co-own the Means of Production (or the "Physical Sources") will have full access and control of that capital infrastructure.
The gpl license prohibits that subsequent releases of the code as closed-source. This is a protection mechanism that needs to be used for capital as well.
All consumers must gain access to the Physical Sources of production for the goods and services they will use. Here are the rules I think we need in a GNU GPL for the material world: We can begin by pooling small consumer investments (crowd funding) to purchase farms and factories and mines and cell-phone towers, etc. Each consumer/owner will co-own some (likely unequal) amount of the Physical Sources needed to produce the amount of goods and services he predicts he will need in the future. Each consumer/owner will accept the good or service directly as the return for the investment risk - thereby short-circuiting the usual need to buy and sell the product. Latecomers who buy surplus must also gain access to the Physical Sources and so we can do this by treating profit as the payer's investment so every consumer incrementally becomes co-owner of the infrastructure needed to produce all the goods and services they each want. Workers cross-commit future labor to gain co-ownership in the Physical Sources of that which they need the results, not necessarily the Physical Sources they know and want to operate (though it is best if someone who chooses to milk cows is also a milk drinker since that will insure he has personal reason to keep the milk clean). Subgroups can secede from the majority for any arbitrary reason while retaining their portion of property ownership. Sincerely, Patrick Anderson http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com http://SocialSufficiencyCoalition.BlogSpot.com