[P2P-F] [Open Manufacturing] Source Control - Freedom through Sharing The Open Factory - an Open Hardware factory in an Irish Ecovillage.

Tue Jul 19 06:31:59 CEST 2011

Open source CMSs allow people who don't code to earn a living building
websites, so in that case, free software benefits the 'users' more than it
benefits the coders, especially the coders who used to get paid to reinvent
the CMS over and over again.

I think the trend in open source projects is that the skill level of
developers/coers continues to increase while the skills level of
deployers/users continues to decrease.  You'll earn the most money by
operating in between - as someone who spend most of their time deploying
systems but also spends time their time developing the code so they
understand the project's capabilities and trajectory.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> it's a really complex picture, combining
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> 1) volunteer labor
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> 2)  precarious unpaid labor
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> 3) low-paid labour
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> 4) a labour aristocracy
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> in a context where, 1) capital owns software companies, not users or
> producers 2) the free software is mostly useful to producers of software,
> i.e. coders, not users who lack the knowledge to improve the software.
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> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Patrick Anderson wrote:
>> > Do you agree this is already what we see in Free Software:
>> > that wages are approaching zero (much work done gratis)?
>>
>> The wages aren't approaching zero; rather, programmers subsidize their
>> own time with their own money. Some is still paying.
>>
>> - Bryan
>> http://heybryan.org/
>> 1 512 203 0507
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