free software as a common - dicorinto - fossa2011
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fOSSa ConferenceLyon 2011
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Arturo Di CorintoLogos-Cattid Sapienza University of Rome
FREE SOFTWARE AS A COMMONS
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Who Am I?
● Arturo Di Corinto is a free, open source software activist, privacy advocate, blogger and mediactivist, a “social hacker”
Cognitive Psychologist
Sapienza, Logos Director
Government consultant
Writer and Journalist
La Repubblica, L'Espresso
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Brevetto Protoplasto
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Patents and Full copyright
The ''bad'' in the story, a certain Brevetto Protoplasto, ask the courthouse to have his rights over the dictionary and the kitchen granted, provoking hilarity among the court and the audience.
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THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS(Hardin, 1968)
•Free riders
•Free Markets
•The Leviathan
Sharing emerging paradigm
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Cooperating is better than competingSometimes we cooperate to better compete
Cooperation can be seen at every level of animal life
COOPERATION AND COMPETITION
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The Prisoner's Dilemma
COOPERATION IS RATIONAL
(Morgenstern,von Neumann, 1944;
Axelrod, 1984)
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The Prisoner's Dilemma
in “the prisoner's dilemma”, cooperation based on reciprocity is the winning strategy. This strategy,
referred to as tit for tat, presupposes that one should begin by cooperating and then by replicating the
partner's behaviour, hence maximising the results of cooperation.
(Morgenstern,von Neumann, 1944;
Axelrod, 1984)
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GIFT ECONOMY: in a gift economy, cooperation is based on solidarity, which is subordinate to a series of social obligations and non-economical factors, which guarantee that the community will benefi t from the cooperation.
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GIFT ECONOMY: In the Foss economy, the logic of cooperation between egoists,
which is typical of Game Theory, to cooperate only “if
and when the other cooperates” changes to: “I will cooperate so long as the other
cooperates too.”
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GIFT ECONOMY: Rational choice in a
higly competitive enviroment which is
characterized by knowledge abundancy
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GIFT ECONOMY:
software libero production and sharing
imply a “gift logic”
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COOPERARENELLANOOSFERA (Lessig, 2001)
Informations, knowledge, ideas are commons non rivalrous, non finishing and inalienable.
Do not fear free riders but ones who pollute and jail the public good of knowledge (DRMs, TCPA, Patents, Copyright).
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