Related: bond, guard, protect, rescue, share, stock, vulnerable
Security is the opposite of vulnerability, and vulnerability is a measure of profit potential, so security is maximized through individual freedom and local permanence.
The security that those improvements are safe from re-enclosure, and therefore can never be used against us is enough to motivate labor.
The defining quality of the GPL is the enforcement of this disallowance. By erecting a barrier to re-privatization, the GPL secures the Means of Production from those who would impose excessive rents on its use.
Copyleft licenses allow both individual and corporate volunteerism to improve the commons without the worry of creating a competitive advantage for others because the resource, and any improvements to the resource are effectively "locked open" to the community.
This Mode of Production can be brought into the physical world by creating an analogous contract which could be applied to the Means of Production for material objects, so that (for example) the tools used to construct an automobile would be available to any qualified worker to bid upon, with the floor of that auction held to the true costs {invest, insure, maintain, etc.} of those machines, and with any improvements made (that must be approved by voting stakeholders) would also be "locked open" to future users of those machines. Any amount bid past the floor could be used to purchase more Means of that variety, since high bids indicate high demand.
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Related: bond, guard, protect, rescue, share, stock, vulnerable
Security is the opposite of vulnerability, and vulnerability is a measure of profit potential, so security is maximized through individual freedom and local permanence.
The security that those improvements are safe from re-enclosure, and therefore can never be used against us is enough to motivate labor.
The defining quality of the GPL is the enforcement of this disallowance. By erecting a barrier to re-privatization, the GPL secures the Means of Production from those who would impose excessive rents on its use.
Copyleft licenses allow both individual and corporate volunteerism to improve the commons without the worry of creating a competitive advantage for others because the resource, and any improvements to the resource are effectively "locked open" to the community.
This Mode of Production can be brought into the physical world by creating an analogous contract which could be applied to the Means of Production for material objects, so that (for example) the tools used to construct an automobile would be available to any qualified worker to bid upon, with the floor of that auction held to the true costs {invest, insure, maintain, etc.} of those machines, and with any improvements made (that must be approved by voting stakeholders) would also be "locked open" to future users of those machines. Any amount bid past the floor could be used to purchase more Means of that variety, since high bids indicate high demand.
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