a purely liberal logic, no wonder turnbull is the one sharing it: nothing is a part of economy until you put price on it which comes from the lib perception that everything is economy; valued ergo sum thats where the twisted lib logic and lib-speak come from, when they talk about education, science, welfare, decency in international affairs, or (rarely) culture or art, which, being economized, end up in a blind spot the power of open source software and free services certainly is conditioned by a component of economical value flow, but definitely is not limited to it and is not fuelled by it exclusively or even to large extent: it rather comes from the grand tradition of craft well-expressed in the writings of the arts and crafts movement and human communal exchange outside of the loop of the capitalist value circulation it would be silly to picture it as the new communist-like production model, since it requires the capitalist production base (computers, communication lines, wage to be able to afford spare time, etc) however, the capitalist attempt to appropriate and fully absorb it (by patenting, media control, acquisitions, compulsory commercialization, etc) would turn the powerful symbiosis into the relationship of the parasite destroying the host
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 01:13:18 +0000
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