New online journal Re-public <http://www.has/> has just
published the first part of its special issue " The
promise of the commons <http://www.re-public.g
r/en> ". The issue explores the openings that
the concept of the 'commons' presents for democratic theory
and practice . Articles include:
Richard Stallman - The free software movement <http://www.re-pu
blic.gr/en/?p=86>
Free software changes the way value is produced, argues
Richard Stallman, because the business or worker can make
the software do what he or she wants it to do
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Douglas Rushkoff - Commons: Creating an alternative value
system <http://www.re-pu
blic.gr/en/?p=85>
How possible is it for us to create value for one another
without the intervention of government or corporate
interests?
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Michel Bauwens - Peer production, peer governance, peer
property <http://www.re-pu
blic.gr/en/?p=87>
Our current political economy is based on the fundamental
mistake that that natural resources are unlimited, points
Michel Bauwens. In a P2P-based society, this situation is
reversed...
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Christopher May - Openness, the knowledge commons and the
critique of intellectual property <http://www.re-pu
blic.gr/en/?p=88>
The rediscovery of 'openness' marks the end of a period when
intellectual property seemed to be the dominant paradigm for
understanding how knowledge and information might fit into
the contemporary information society, says Christopher May.
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Christos Bouras and Vagelis Kapoulas - Digital commons
<http://www.re-pu
blic.gr/en/?p=92>
Christos Bouras and Vagelis Kapoulas analyse the extent to
which the idea of common ownership has been imprinted in the
digital age.
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All articles of Re-public are published with a Creative
Commons license and can be re-printed freely, by
acknowledging their source.
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