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TomGlaisyerPaper1EbensArgument 17 - 12 Dec 2008 - Main.TomGlaisyer
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Introduction | | | (b) The GPL, and its derivatives, are what differentiates free software from merely open source software and though a number of projects don't use the GPL license it is entirely reasonable to conclude that without this legal artifact the groundswell of participation may not have occurred as it has. | |
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< | That said, it is curious that a relatively modest legal document enforced through the norms and mechanisms of the state is thought critical to facilitating anarchic production since you might define such production as "lacking order, regularity, or definiteness" if you draw upon the Merriam-Webster definition of the term anarchic. Moreover, since anarchy, as defined by The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics is "the view that society can and should be organized without a coercive state," it suggests that despite its unconventionality calling this this mode of production "anarchic production" is not quite appropriate. The mode of production that works as a result of the GPL which operates as a result of the existence of state enforced mechanisms. At the micro level production occurs through loose organizational structures, which David Stark might call heterarchical, which contain some level of order and definiteness. Additionally, it coexists with profit seeking firms, seemingly fruitfully for both parties, suggesting that despite its success is far from independently anarchic. | >
> | That said, it is curious that a relatively modest legal document enforced through the norms and mechanisms of the state is thought critical to facilitating anarchic production since you might define such production as "lacking order, regularity, or definiteness" if you draw upon the Merriam-Webster definition of the term anarchic. Moreover, since anarchy, as defined by The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics is "the view that society can and should be organized without a coercive state," it suggests that despite its unconventionality calling this this mode of production "anarchic production" is not quite appropriate. The mode of production that works as a result of the GPL operates as a result of the existence of state enforced mechanisms. At the micro level production occurs through loose organizational structures, which David Stark might call heterarchical, which contain some level of order and definiteness. Additionally, it coexists with profit seeking firms, seemingly fruitfully for both parties, suggesting that despite its success is far from independently anarchic. | | | Micro structures and Second Order Effects |
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