Matt Edminster's Profile

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P2P follows the adage: each contributes according to his capacities and willingness, and each takes according to his needs. There is no obligatory reciprocity involved. In the pure forms of peer production, producers are not paid. Thus, if there is 'gifting' it is entirely non-reciprocal gifting, the use of peer-produced use-value does not create a contrary obligation.

Peer production can most easily operate in the sphere of immaterial goods, where the input is free time and the available surplus of computing resources.

It was a homily waiting for an occasion.

human existence bereft of transcendence is an impoverished and finally untenable condition