May 11, 2022

Open-source software, shared innovation and crowd-sourced manufacturing threaten capitalism as we know it. Source: The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive ‘value abundance’? | Science and Technology | Al Jazeera

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Traditional examples of commons include forests, fisheries, or groundwater resources, but increasingly the term commons is used for a broader set of domains, e.g. knowledge commons, digital commons, urban commons, health commons, cultural commons, etc. The study of governing shared resources is therefore not restricted to the original domain of natural resources; the IASC brings…

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What are commons? The original meaning of the term ‘commons’ comes from the way communities managed land that was held ‘in common’ in medieval Europe. Along with this shared land a clear set of rules was developed by the community about how it was to be used. Over time, the term ‘commons’ has taken on…

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