[OSList] Culture Technology Wants to Be Free

Fri Oct 17 13:00:34 PDT 2014

Hi Anne,

I join with you regarding the cheese.

What concerns me is summed up in my essay:

Any and all attempts to close what is open, through tricky licensing, 
trademarks and the like.

Because culture technology wants to be free.

On 10/17/14 3:47 PM, anne.bennett8ac wrote:
> I get the concern for open source principles
> However, on reading the 4 swarm things....not much like OS and setting 
> out a process that sounds cheesy at best, (deleted long winded reasons 
> why it leaves me cold...proving that it did)
>
> Sent from Samsung Mobile
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Daniel Mezick via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
> Date: 2014/10/17 20:10 (GMT+00:00)
> To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> Subject: [OSList] Culture Technology Wants to Be Free
>
>
> Reference Link:
> http://newtechusa.net/agile/culture-technology-wants-to-be-free/
>
> In researching Barcamp and Unconference formats, I discover that 
> Barcamp and Unconference came much later and are in fact direct 
> derivatives of Open Space, also known as "Open Space Technology", as 
> in "Open Space Technology: A Users Guide."
>
> We cannot act in the past. This sometimes leads to feelings of regret 
> in the present moment. And so I wonder: what would the world look like 
> if the bare essentials of Open Space were published under an 
> open-source license... way, back, when?
>
> What can be done about it today?
>
> Because as Kári Gunnarsson points out, these four preconditions of the 
> swarm invitation from Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge look very like 
> either a direct copy of Open Space, or a derivative work of the Open 
> Space, specifically the meeting Invitation.
>
> The book does has an index; no mention of Open Space. No bibliography.
>
> A quick check of Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge reveals that the work is 
> printed under a Closed-Source license. See for yourself:
>
> ===========================================================
> http://falkvinge.net/files/2013/04/Swarmwise-2013-by-Rick-Falkvinge-v1.1-2013Sep01.pdf
> Formally, this book is under copyright monopoly until January 1, 2034 
> — twenty
> years from publication. During that time, it is licensed unde/r a 
> Creative Commons/
> /Noncommercial-Attribution 3.0 license,//meaning what is said above 
> about free shar//i//ng//. These are the same terms as suggested in the 
> author’s previous book,//The Case//for Copyright Reform//. Commercial 
> exclusive rights rest with the author for the twenty/
> /years./
> ===========================================================
>
> According to Creative Commons, "This is not a Free Culture License". 
> That is, not open source.
>
> See for yourself. Follow this link and click "no" to the question:
>
>
>         "Allow commercial uses of your work?"
>
> https://creativecommons.org/choose/
>
> ...click through further to see what "This is not a Free Culture 
> license" actually means. It means this is NOT an open source license.
>
> There are some big announcements coming soon about people who are 
> deliberately publishing culture-technology designs (patterns, 
> structures, frameworks) under true open source licensing, either the 
> GPL or CC-BY-SA-4.0. And for very excellent reasons.
>
> This is the second time I have seen culture technology designs 
> published which co-opts items in the public domain, does not bring 
> source documents forward, and does not give attribution to sources. 
> All of which must be done when publishing under open source licensing.
>
> Closed-source licensing for culture technology is a serious impediment 
> to the development of innovative culture technology at a time when 
> more, not less innovation is what we need. Culture technology wants to 
> be free.
>
> Reference Link:
> http://newtechusa.net/agile/culture-technology-wants-to-be-free/
>
>
> Daniel
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> On 10/17/14 2:34 PM, Kári Gunnarsson via OSList wrote:
>> The four preconditions of the swarm invitation from Swarmwise by Rick 
>> Falkvinge. I find this oddly similar to the preconditions of Open Space.
>>
>> 1. Tangible: You need to post an outline of the goals you intend to
>> meet, when, and how.
>>
>> 2. Credible: After having presented your daring goal, you need to
>> present it as totally doable. Bonus points if nobody has done it
>> before.
>>
>> 3. Inclusive: There must be room for participation by every spectator
>> who finds it interesting, and they need to realize this on hearing
>> about the project.
>>
>> 4. Epic: Finally, you must set out to change the entire world for the
>> better — or at least make a major improvement for a lot of people.
>
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