The open source method demonstrates the power of social capitol in the internet. I've been working on a framework to measure the Stock or amount of Social Capitol in a community such as Radio Bloggers or just bloggers. The rules or factors that drive success in the networked gift economics that is opensource are different from the old information scarce rules of Intilectual Property dominated economics. We all have access to the same or simillar information so we gain by givving it away faster and more freely.
The social norms in the internet are interesting the freedom principle that founded the internet have real residues that to this day live on. Why should a few at the top accumulate the wealth or capitol resdues of the many. We should all get credit for our contribution and creativity. The system can change and now that we have discovered some shanagans at by big co's the money is looking for a safer place or looking for a hill to go down.
These are fundamental laws of nature being manifest in the larger macroeconomic scales.
SJ Mercury: Control freaks tightening their grip on the Internet. Dan Gillmor. Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and author of several important books on our technology-influenced future, was the program's pessimist. He's been jetting around the world for several years, warning of what's coming. And what's coming, he keeps saying, is a victory of the control freaks. [Tomalak's Realm]
We operate under markets, norms, laws and -- crucially -- architecture. The latter, key to one of Lessig's signature notions, is that the way people build computers and software is, itself, creating law -- because it determines limits on how we use technology.
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