This article presents a nice explanation of gift economies, but then falls into the same old story. Prestige, at least in the amount required to turn into cash, is awarded only to a precious few. We need a gift economy where supporters can give cash to authors and publishers of free works, and do it in a way that doesn't involve navigating websites or supporting monopoly payment services.
Free software developers interested in this notion might take a look at <A HREF="http://giftfile.org/documents/free_software_hackers_intro" title="giftfile.org">Free Software Hacker's Introduction to the Giftfile System</a giftfile.org>. There was also a recent <A HREF="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/04/227245" title="slashdot.org">slashdot article</a slashdot.org> about this system.
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Posted by: belm0 on June 08, 2004 04:26 AMThis article presents a nice explanation of gift economies, but then falls into the same old story. Prestige, at least in the amount required to turn into cash, is awarded only to a precious few. We need a gift economy where supporters can give cash to authors and publishers of free works, and do it in a way that doesn't involve navigating websites or supporting monopoly payment services.
Free software developers interested in this notion might take a look at <A HREF="http://giftfile.org/documents/free_software_hackers_intro" title="giftfile.org">Free Software Hacker's Introduction to the Giftfile System</a giftfile.org>. There was also a recent <A HREF="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/04/227245" title="slashdot.org">slashdot article</a slashdot.org> about this system.
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