On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:04:44PM +0200, Moritz Sinn wrote:
Andrea Glorioso sama@perchetopi.org writes:
I'll stop here before we drift off-topic, but I think a serious and scientific discussion on the topic of economy and Libre Software (as well as libre content, libre communication, etc, etc) is a thing to do. Most probably it's already being done and I don't know where - any suggestion in this sense is welcome.
An active discussion list for Free Software business is http://www.crynwr.com/fsb/
As it was already mentioned, the oekonux project (oekonux.org) discusses the effect of free software on economy and society and how the principle could change the world, or what power and motivation lays in the free software movement.
While I find it good, that oekonux offers a place to debate those questions should be noted that they sometimes come up with odd arguments and questions that have been debated in length in other disciplins already.
In my eyes they focus too much on the capitalism versus communism question, where the real economies faces a lot of different problems and there never has been a real capitalism or communism. Economy scientists will describe the situation and their current theories with other terms. I even heard some oekonux people believe that this could develop into gratis physical goods. Naturally I do not share this notion.