Re: MySQL to go public
On Feb 1, 2007, at 7:28 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
Note that movies, books, music, etc, are quite similar in this respect. Hence the “Free Culture” movement.
Also small sectors. And if you give it all away, then programmers,
filmmakers, writers, and musicians will never get paid for their
work. Shouldn’t they?
But anarchists warn about this ancient line of discussion. David
Graeber writes:
Anarchist: Okay, then. There have been all sorts of successful experiments: experiments with worker’s self-management, like Mondragon; economic projects based on the idea of the gift economy, like Linux; all sorts of political organiza- tions based on consensus and direct democracy…
Skeptic: Sure, sure, but these are small, isolated examples. I’m talking about whole societies. […]
The dice are loaded. You can’t win. Because when the skeptic says “society,” what he really means is “state,” even “nation-state.”
No. I gave three examples - the production and distribution of
peaches, health care, and transportation. By the first, I meant the
entire primary sector (food, raw materials); by the second and third,
I meant the secondary and tertiary sectors (vehicles, simple and
complex services, etc.). That’s not the “nation-state” - it’s most of
what we live on.
Doug