That is pretty dark, doc. I agree there is a dark side to our capitalist economic system. (There is also a bright side.) Sans government regulation, what can we do?
The gift economy has always existed side-by-side with the regular economy. However, it really took off and provided us with some interesting solutions when Richard Stallman, and others, decided to create free, open-source licensing. Marc Andreessen, an Iowa-born, Wisconsin-raised kid attended Univ of Illinois and co-created the Mosaic web browser. He became a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist. A decade ago, he wrote an interesting article: *Software is Eating the World* ( https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world ). So, if everything is becoming software, then free, open-source software is how we expand the gift economy's bright light as an antidote into the darkness of proprietary software capitalism, maybe? Software includes programs and data. Autopilot software is mostly programming. KR/Freebird plans are mostly data. I have been lurking on this email list for awhile, but reading that this community is creating the KR/Freebird free, open-source plans and a huge quantity of supporting docs from many innovators, I am very excited to participate. I reached out to Mark Langeford last month to let him know that the domain name that he was planning to use was still available to register. He informed me that he decided to use something slightly different. I, then, registered something slightly different from those two domains, also. I received an email from GoDaddy this morning that someone is interested in buying my domain name. I discovered that it is Mark's email address. I am not interested in selling the domain. I have two options to offer, instead. Option #1: In the spirit of the gift economy, I donate the domain to Mark if that is the one he would prefer to use for his new website. Option #2: I donate the development/hosting of a cutting edge Backdrop CMS website with the domain using only free, open-source software. Mark would be the Admin or whomever Mark and you all decide. The Admin has all of the power of what content is allowed on the site and who can be contributors. The Admin also decides how to allocate roles and permissions of those roles. If you want to move away from the early 90's plain vanilla HTML style websites to a full-featured, secure, cutting edge site; that is how I can contribute to this community. Let me know if you are interested in Option #2 and I can begin to explain the kind of features that are possible. On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:33 AM Dr. Feng Hsu via KRnet < krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > The next thing we will all see is the price going up (for the same > products) like a rocket! And the huge profits gained by the big techs are > headed directly to Wall Street, and to the pickets of political "campaign" > accounts in Washington.... much of the huge profits may even ended up in > the overseas bank accounts of relatives of CCP! The ones got screwed and > burned badly are middle class Americans or folks like us around the > globe...! > > And the big techs provided all sorts of virtual platforms with no > regulatory constraint at all (sucks as FB, Google, MS...), which then > created a huge jungle world called cyber space, where is almost completely > lawlessness! And if the poor middle class folks like us to invest our > lifetime savings or retirement (not in the millions but in 10s or 100s of > thousands of courses), your money could get swallowed or sucked into black > holes or scammed in no time....!! > > Collectively, the big techs and politicians have made our lives miserable, > and we must look for savings of even pennies like such whenever possible! > > May God Bless us all! > >
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