[P2P-F] comment on ronfeldt

[Michel Bauwens]

ok, thanks for that!! the worse thing is that after failing to approve if
you go back, your comment has already disappeared ....

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:46 PM, David Ronfeldt <ronfeldt at mac.com> wrote:

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> ah blogger.  i've had problems leaving comments at my own blog at times.
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> anyway, i just pasted and published your comment, clarifying it was from
> you, at the post.
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> i also changed a blog comment setting.  so try again if there is follow-up.
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> onward.
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> On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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>  Dear David,
>>
>> as I could not publish the comment via blogger, I add it here:
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>> 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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