open source as a convivial and democratic mode of production

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.