Open Source Development

Pathways From Collaborative Open Source Innovation to Commercialization for Low Carbon Development

a research paper for Open Source Ecology

Rough Outline

1. need for right livelihoods to subvert nonprofit industrial complex and coordinator class habits
2. localization to avoid outsourcing environmental reliance, Kuznets curve and leakage
3. political economy of conflict concerning technology transfer
4. argument for open source innovation revolution of intellectual property regime
5. hurdles to collaborative open source innovation
6. incentives and commercialization
7. ?current initiatives for low-carbon development?
8. economic development theory on endogenous development and flexible production models

Some Notes and Questions from Organizational Strategy

What about the environmental economies of scale that comes from living in cities compared to rural communes?

two routes to commercialization: capitalist collusion or cooperative coalescence? CEB collectively owned by a farmers union and cooperatively managed or individually owned and rented out in a capitalist economy?

In nations with a developed infrastructure base is the creation of autonomous infrastructure bases redundant and wasteful? How can OSE communities leverage existing infrastructure base? “Right livelihood is predicated on autonomy in the provision of these basic needs. Otherwise, uncontrollable external forces such as employers, governments, or external providers of needs- produce misalignment with the most fundamental interests of the community.” Is trade not a necessary evil that produces misalignment?

“Overpopulation is addressed as only the number of people is invited into a particular community as can be supported by indigenous resources.” – closed borders policy, problematic?

“Our fundamental principle is that information is the critical, frequently absent component enabling the success of endeavors.” Innovation economics

History of socialist communes? How is Factor E Farm different?

Replace the word poor with the word “deprived”

“right livelihood enterprise community” = RLC

RLC Diffusion and Deployment

• engage with right livelihood people’s movements
  • Brazilian Landless Workers Movement
  • The Land is Ours, UK
• leverage existing infrastructure base by supporting people’s control, public trust policy

Journals?

• ecology and society
• the land: “the mechanized neoluddites”

Survey Search Terms

• innovation economics, intellectual property rights (IPR), public domain, free and open source

References

• Söderberg, Johan. (2007) Hacking capitalism: the free and open source software movement Volume 9 of Routledge research in information technology and society.
  • "The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below."

OSE Critique: We do not favor polarization of capitalists, socialists, etc. We're all in it together, and the discussion should focus on a better world for everybody, not which 'ism' is better.

Liam.rattray 20:39, 25 October 2009 (UTC)