[P2P-F] The Material Basis of Immaterial Production (was: must watch on future of internet)

[Michel Bauwens]

I agree,

Michel

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>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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