hi,
Niall Douglas wrote:
Information is power, and thus it is valuable to those who wish to exert power. For example if most Americans knew the true state of Saddam's Iraq, they would never have let Bush invade that country.
i agree - we should tell them
And that kind of sweeping change is something free software cannot do because you'll never get enough of a team together to agree on something totally unproven. Only investment capital can pay people to do the work required to prove a concept.
we built this on good will and credit cards http://mkdoc.com/
free software is able to make sweeping changes as it brings to our attention a new mode of production - this mode of production enables things to be built which are both more useful and cheaper than those built in the past
*more useful because things are built to satisfy the collective needs of the participants - the thing gets built without having to face one side of the value form - money
*cheaper because the build and the maintenance is distributed ... and here's the cruncher ... we build things to last - we build libraries, we modularise; we build things for re use - we don't build things to throw away, burn and other wise pollute the planet - we are outside the reproduction process dictated by the reproduction of the other side of the value form - capital
through out history one form of society has been replaced by another with a more competitive mode of production - Graham Seaman draws some interesting parallels between what's happening now and what happened in the uk in the 17 th century when the feudal mode of production was defeated by the capitalist mode of production [1]
Software, just like mathematics (gee, because it IS mathematics), and
Software is a BRANCH of mathematics. It is *similar* to other areas of mathematics but it is most certainly not the same.
what would you call the solution to n simultaneous equations with n different variables ? i'm thinking of a method in which we could equate any product with any another in order that they can be exchanged; this is necessary when there's not enough products for everyone and an individual needs to exchange his products for those needed for his subsistence ?
historically these equations have been solved by money, the universal equivalent form of value - is this software ?
-- adam
[1] The Two Economies http://second.oekonux-konferenz.org/documentation/texts/Seaman.html
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On 29 Sep 2003 at 0:59, Adam Moran wrote:
And that kind of sweeping change is something free software cannot
do > because you'll never get enough of a team together to agree on > something totally unproven. Only investment capital can pay people to
do the work required to prove a concept.
we built this on good will and credit cards http://mkdoc.com/
Isn't this basically a Wiki?
Cheers, Niall
hi niall,
Niall Douglas wrote:
Only investment capital can pay people to
do the work required to prove a concept.
we built this on good will and credit cards http://mkdoc.com/
Isn't this basically a Wiki?
why don't you give it a try ... it will work just fine over a modem ... or with a non-visual browser ... there may be a problem though if your native language is mongolian; although mkdoc can store and search content of any character set, it can only display right-to-left and left-to-right languages - we're a bit stuck on mongolian until there's a method to display top-to-bottom languages in a browser
-- adam