Open source as a convivial and democratic mode of production
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This document discusses open source and commons-based peer production. It describes peer production as large-scale collaboration that is decentralized and motivated by social factors rather than markets or management. Peer production enables modular, granular contributions that can be easily integrated at low cost. The document also discusses Ivan Illich's concept of "conviviality" as individual freedom through personal interdependence. Commons-based peer production can materialize virtues like autonomy, creativity, altruism, and cooperation. However, the relationship between peer production and virtues is not directly causal and remains normatively attractive rather than conclusively proven.
Open source as a convivial and democratic mode of production
- 1. Open source as a convivial and democratic mode of production Louis Florin – University of Liège
- 2. Commons-based peer production Collaboration within large groups of persons Decentralization Social-based motivation It differs from managerial-firm, market-based and government production
- 3. Four transactional frameworks : Market-based Non-market Decentralized Price-system Social sharing and exchange Centralized Firm Government, Non-profits Source : http://fr.slideshare.net/medialabSciencesPo/yochai-benkler-inauguration-mdialab-sciences-po?src=embed
- 7. Conditions that makes peer production possible : Modularity Granularity Low-cost integration
- 9. 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)
- 11. Materializing values Autonomy Creativity Altruism Cooperation, Civic Virtue
- 12. 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.