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The argument of The Cathedral and the Bazaar made by esr (upon which the open source "movement" was established) is true, but not only for knowledge making but also for decisions made upon it, which is done only where the owners sit.1
| When the Approach is | As the knowledge is | Where the use (of the knowledge) by others is made | The profit is made |
|---|---|---|---|
| of closing knowledge | exclusive property | centralized, as the use is restricted by the owners and/or separated from the products of the knowledge | centralized |
| of opening knowledge | contributed property | decentralized, as the use of the knowledge is allowed under standards such as gpl, open-source and common-creative, within the umbrella named Web2.0 | centralized and/or decentralized |
| of common companies | exclusive and/or contributed property | centralized and/or decentralized | decentralized, as more as the factor d is bigger |
The knowledge, even when is shared, does not necessarily contribute to the decentralization of the profit made from it.
E.G. Google inc, the biggest monopoly on earth, uses the technology build in the open source community but used only in its closed servers and only such that no one knows what is the algorithm it uses, and where its partners are those who are named evil such as doubleclick, meaning those who use the practise of monitoring us without our knowledge and delivering that knowledge to unknown parties. see here what more can we do by using the piletech thing .
“We’re a tiny company. We’re 250 people and we’re competing with Apple, Microsoft, [and] Google.” - John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla
Hence mozzilla must be ComComized for surviving and we could use ComCom Social for the sake of the open source community in its struggling in front of the codes closed in servers owned by big cooperations.
Conclusion: the closing-knowledge or opening-knowledge approaches oppose each other on the same dimension as the common companies approach open up a new additional dimension.
See also the latest Faq and specifically the the chill responses to be considered for ComComizing
please consider also this personal thread
- Only 15% of all the linux code is made by individuals and not by the big-cooperations.
- This is done for having for free the code (15%) of new ideas be imported and regulated (85%) not only into the linux platform but also into the closed platforms of the big-cooperations.
- This is due the evil and 5th (out of the 10) clause claimed by the open-source to comply for being qualified as open-source (see opensource.org/docs/osd).
- The clause claims No Discrimination when comparing person (such a poor one) with cooperation such as Microsoft or Google (which is based only on open source in its close servers).
