<div dir="ltr"><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A </span></font><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">few contradictions, a paradox, a critique and an alternative regarding the future of the Commons-oriented economies. This might be of interest: <a href="http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/561">http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/561</a><br>
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                                        <p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Two prominent social progressive movements are faced with a few contradictions and a
paradox. On the one side, we have a re-emergence of the co-operative movement and worker-owned
enterprises which suffer from certain structural weaknesses. On the other, we have an emergent field
of open and Commons-oriented peer production initiatives which create common pools of knowledge
for the whole of humanity, but are dominated by start-ups and large multinational enterprises using the
same Commons. Thus we have a paradox: the more communist the sharing license used in the peer
production of free software or open hardware, the more capitalist the practice. To tackle this paradox
and the aforementioned contradictions, we tentatively suggest a new convergence that would combine
both Commons-oriented open peer production models with common ownership and governance
models, such as those of the co-operatives and the solidarity economic models.
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</span></font><div><div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>-- <br></span></font><div dir="ltr"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dr. Vasilis Kostakis<br><br>Research Fellow<br>
Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance <br><br>Research Director<br>P2P Lab: <a href="http://p2plab.org/" target="_blank">http://p2plab.org</a><br></span></font></div>
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