open source as a convivial and democratic mode of production
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Open source
as a convivial and
democratic mode of
productionLouis Florin – University of Liège
Commons-based peer production
Collaboration within large groups of persons
Decentralization
Social-based motivation
It differs from managerial-firm, market-based and government production
Four transactional frameworks :
Market-based Non-market
Decentralized Price-system Social sharing and
exchange
Centralized Firm Government, Non-profits
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Conditions that makes peer production
possible :
Modularity
Granularity
Low-cost integration
Illich’s notion of conviviality :
“I choose the term "conviviality"
to designate the opposite of
industrial productivity (…)
I consider conviviality to be
individual freedom realized in
personal interdependence and,
as such, an intrinsic ethical
value.”
Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
Materializing values
Autonomy
Creativity
Altruism
Cooperation, Civic Virtue
Limits of the reasoning and conclusion
Structural connection between commons-based peer production and virtues;
no unidirectional and direct causality
Normatively attractive
Peer production is not only a new mode of production to provide knowledge
and information, but also a source of desirable political, social and human
virtues that provide a context in which conviviality and democracy are
possible.