“[i]n a constantly changing environment, sustainability is not some ultimate endpoint but is better conceived as a continuous process of learning and adaptation. [...] Sustainability is a process of co-evolution and co-design that involves diverse communities in making flexible and adaptable design decisions at local, regional and global scales.”
“ Designers as Transdisciplinary Integrators and Facilitators of Sustainable Solutions” Daniel Christian Wahl & Seaton Baxter. Design Issues , 2008.
Linus Torvalds
"I think the real issue about adoption of open source is that nobody can really ever "design" a complex system. That's simply not how things work: people aren't that smart - nobody is. What open source allows is to not actually "design" things, but let them evolve, through lots of different pressures in the market, and having the end result just continually improve."
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design
In peer production, the interests of capitalists and entrepreneurs are no longer aligned
"incentives of entrepreneurs (whether they work for free, get consulting fees) and capitalists (who want to get a return on something they own) diverge in situations that are mainly coordinated through non-monetary incentives."
For example, Linus Torvalds: coordinating social activity. A capitalist, by contrast, wants to get a return on something they own.
The current battles over intellectual property rights are just the beginning of a much larger conflict about how to handle a broad shift from centralized, high capital production to decentralized, low capital production.
http://jed.jive.com/?p=23
"When solar cell companies develop cheaper panels, then we'll switch to solar power." Did you ever hear someone say this? Instead of waiting around for solar panels to become affordable, why don't we collaborate and make them ourselves.
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