[P2P-F] comment on ronfeldt

Tue Jul 19 18:46:12 CEST 2011

ah blogger.  i've had problems leaving comments at my own blog at times.

anyway, i just pasted and published your comment, clarifying it was  
from you, at the post.

i also changed a blog comment setting.  so try again if there is  
follow-up.

onward.

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On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:

> Dear David,
>
> as I could not publish the comment via blogger, I add it here:
>
> Regarding Joseph comment.
>
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> The open source governance ecology refers to 1) the community of  
> contributors its code commons and collaborative infrastructure; 2)  
> foundations and nonprofits which maintain the projects  
> infrastructure 3) an enterpreneurial coalition. Josef's comments  
> pertain to the first aspect, and do not exhaust the wide variety of  
> governance modes that are for example highlighted by the research of  
> George Dafermos. Benevolent dictatorships are but one modality and  
> misnamed as they are not command and control hierarchies and usually  
> involve post-facto control of the permissionless production process.  
> Second, the foundations have a wide variety of democratic mechanisms  
> such as election, rotation, etc ... The real issue is the third  
> aspect, i.e. how far do the businesses influence the community,  
> which may consist of its employees, and the foundation, which it may  
> partly fund ...
>
> But, the governance of open source models, now emigrating to  
> physical production through shared design practices, do not have to  
> be in any way 'perfect' in order to exert an influence. The english  
> revolution of 1688 effected institutional change by changing power  
> to the pre-existing manufacturing and financial/commercial networks,  
> creating the conditions for industrial capitalism to emerge.  
> Similary, social movements of the future may effect change by  
> locating power in the emerging p2p civil society networks, a  
> substantial number of them functioning in similar ways to open  
> source projects, or as is now the case in europe, though the popular  
> assembly model.
>
> Michel Bauwens
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