The Material Basis of Immaterial Production (was: must watch on future of internet)
Organizations that care about User Freedom, such as the Free Software Foundation, the Free Culture Forum, Libre Planet, and many others I forget at the moment do not seem to admit the material basis of our struggle, for if they did, they would be attempting to discover how to share the hardware needed to *host* that production. Sharing hardware is the next crucial step in our emancipation, but is avoided in favor of individual ownership (such as plug-computing and wireless mesh networks) while the larger issues of the physical resources such as the network and agriculture being owned by profit-seeking entities remains untouched. Richard Stallman seems to imply there is no way to build cloud computing that respects user freedom. This is a lack of vision or an avoidance of the admittedly complex problems that occur when users attempt to share hardware. Sharing hardware is difficult, and not yet fully understood. That is why we must put effort into designing a system of governance which we can then apply to physical resources that we buy and co-own in small groups for our own, mutual benefit. Until we do this, we will forever beg those that have ownership while wondering why they won't do the right thing. If these groups were to admit and attempt to solve these issues, they would buy hardware to begin hosting the software that already exists needed to replace Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. Until we do this, we are sitting-ducks in denial of the The Material Basis of Immaterial Production. Sincerely, Patrick Anderson http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com
I agree, Michel On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Patrick Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
Organizations that care about User Freedom, such as the Free Software Foundation, the Free Culture Forum, Libre Planet, and many others I forget at the moment do not seem to admit the material basis of our struggle, for if they did, they would be attempting to discover how to share the hardware needed to *host* that production.
Sharing hardware is the next crucial step in our emancipation, but is avoided in favor of individual ownership (such as plug-computing and wireless mesh networks) while the larger issues of the physical resources such as the network and agriculture being owned by profit-seeking entities remains untouched.
Richard Stallman seems to imply there is no way to build cloud computing that respects user freedom. This is a lack of vision or an avoidance of the admittedly complex problems that occur when users attempt to share hardware.
Sharing hardware is difficult, and not yet fully understood. That is why we must put effort into designing a system of governance which we can then apply to physical resources that we buy and co-own in small groups for our own, mutual benefit. Until we do this, we will forever beg those that have ownership while wondering why they won't do the right thing.
If these groups were to admit and attempt to solve these issues, they would buy hardware to begin hosting the software that already exists needed to replace Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, etc.
Until we do this, we are sitting-ducks in denial of the The Material Basis of Immaterial Production.
Sincerely, Patrick Anderson http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com
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